Rick Perry: The Conservative Case for Psychedelics

The former Texas governor on helping veterans with PTSD, increasing legal immigration, and the illegal drug he'd most like to try

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Rick Perry: The Conservative Case for Psychedelics

In June, I traveled to Denver with Zach Weismueller to cover the Psychedelic Science 2023 conference, organized by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a group that has been working to gain Food and Drug Administration approval of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD since the late 1980s. We produced a 30-minute documentary about today's "psychedelic renaissance."

The most surprising speaker at the conference was Rick Perry, the former Texas governor and Trump administration energy secretary. What in tarnation was a conservative Republican doing on the stage, extolling the virtues of drugs long associated with hippies and 1960s counterculture?

I sat down with Perry to learn why he believes psychedelics should be legal medicine for veterans and others suffering from PTSD, how to allow more immigrants to come to America lawfully, and why if he were ever to take a psychedelic drug it would be Ibogaine, a notoriously powerful substance made from the bark of an African tree.

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[Mike Parsons]

The former Texas governor on:

- helping veterans with PTSD
- increasing legal immigration, and ...
- ......
- ......oops

[Johnathan Galt]

Yep - Commie self-outed.

[Mike Parsons]

lol, ya sure bud.

[Olivahunter]

Sad

[Libertariantranslator]

Objectivist impersonator, self-routed.

[Jerry B.]

Rick Perry for Republican Presidential candidate?

Could do worse. A whole lot worse.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

We could elect Joe Biden, for instance.

[Johnathan Galt]

Or not – just install him via a stolen election.

Wait - we already did that.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hey, elections are bad for democracy.

[CE]

And protesting on public property to have the vote count audited before the proclaimed winner is sworn in is insurrection.

[CE]

But only reluctantly and strategically.

[Dillinger]

Governor Rick was a more liberty-minded Texas Governor than others

[Mother's Lament]

The bien pensants are always surprised when Republicans advocate for weed and hemp like Mitch McConnell or psychedelics like Perry, but they forget that the biggest drug warrior ever was Biden, with Clinton tied with Reagan for second.

[JesseAz]

No no. It is kamala. Which is why we can't impeach Biden. Ask the one true libertarian.

[CE]

She was the perfect VP pick. It was hard to find someone who checked all the boxes, and still made people think twice about getting rid of Biden.

[Naime Bond]

When he suggested more immigration, he should have been tested to see what psycheldelic he was using.

[Super Scary]

Has anyone here taken a lot different of psychedelics? I did salvia once in college just before it was banned and I have to say, it wasn't the best experience and I probably wouldn't do it again.

[Mother's Lament]

I didn't find acid particularly enjoyable or life changing. Most of my hallucinations were auditory and I became fascinated with the wood grain on the table.
Shrooms just gave me nausea and made me jumpy.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

Yes. I have done a lot of drugs.

I like LSD a lot. Shrooms are hard to get to hit hard enough for my tastes without making one ill. DMA was cool, if short, and lefty a nasty taste in my mouth for far longer than it was worth. Ketamine basically saved my life. I get monthly infusions that make me less inclined to murder myself.

[Alberto Balsalm]

Getting sick and tired of a bunch of stiffs claiming the benefits of psychedelics without ever really frying their balls off. Perry, Huberman, Rogan and many others havent even seen the world through several hits of windowpane yet claim them to be a panacea. These idiots will give many people psychoses, which may not be reversible. These drugs are very powerful and can help as many people as they destroy. Caveot emptor.

[Fats of Fury]

https://twitter.com/endwokeness/status/1701633651891417364?s=61&t=Lvj0cz99c-X12aRCL67s1w

Holy sh*t

The Secretary of State in Illinois came to speak out against “book bans” at school
Senator John Kennedy then reads directly from the books he is defending for kids
His reaction: "Those words are disturbing coming from your mouth."

[Mike Parsons]

"Senator John Kennedy then reads directly from the books he is defending for kids
His reaction: “Those words are disturbing coming from your mouth.”"

Two things are true here.

1: These things are abhorrent, and absolutely should not be in schools, and the people pushing for it are absolutely creepy groomer pedos

2: Those words are absolutely extra disturbing, hearing John Kennedy read them

[Fats of Fury]

https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1702016096167989280

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[Mother's Lament]

I'm guessing he didn't want to wrap up his career with a loss, which would affect the quangos, NGOs, boards, book deals and consultancies he'll be joining and getting.

[Mother's Lament]

Now that I think about it, he's probably planning to go to the wall for Biden in any coming impeachment trial and doesn't want to worry about his constituents.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

The "conservative case" is "The Constitution does not authorize the federal government to have an opinion on the subject". Full stop.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Legalize all drugs. In fact, subsidize production and distribution. Beat back the nannies and the LE-industrial complex. Mourn the 10% of the population that will quickly off themselves, and then get on with life.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

I could sign up with the New York Times to write each week about the “conservative case for…” [progressive goal du jour]

But is the position already taken?

[NOYB2]

Like any other drug, psychedelics are underground clinical testing and will eventually be approved if it makes sense.

[NOYB2]

*undergoing

[CE]

I misread the headline. I thought it said:
"Rick Perry: the psychedelic case for conservatives"

[Libertariantranslator]

Why they thought of me when a Vietnam deserter went on a bummer in Vancouver in 1971 is a mystery. Nor would the clinic staff hand me a tab of Thorazine to hand to the poor kid. Being enslaved to murder civilians evidently is harmful, and this one shellshocked soldier was clearly frightened--not of tripping--but of military "intelligence" and other hobgoblins not common on Canadian soil in the Nixon era. The guy would not come to the clinic, fearing a trap, and finally took off running into the night. Invasion is Hell.

[hatchhozzen]

Getting sick and tired of a bunch of stiffs claiming the benefits of psychedelics without ever really frying their balls off. Perry, Huberman, Rogan and https://lamtoto.org/ many others havent even seen the world through several hits of windowpane yet claim them to be a panacea. These idiots will give many people psychoses, which may not be reversible. These drugs are very powerful and can help as many people as they destroy. Caveot emptor.