Donald Trump Wants You To Do Shrooms?
The Republican Party has a long history of demonizing drug use and drug users as a political strategy to keep prisons full, and to give the public an enemy other than their actual enemy: the ultra rich.
However, the Trump Administration is taking a different approach. While the Republicans of the past have equated LSD and psilocybin (the chemical compound found in psychedelic mushrooms that causes hallucination) with hard drugs such as crack cocaine and opiates, the Trump administration appears open to exploring their medicinal benefits.
The man championing this shift in conservative politics is none other than Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
During RFK’s Presidential campaign, he promised, if elected, to legalize psychedelics to fund “healing centers” where people struggling with addiction could take shrooms, talk to therapists, and learn how to farm. Basically he promised to turn Humboldt County into a hospital. And it appears RFK is using his position as the Secretary of Health and Human Services to achieve just that.
While there is legitimate evidence for psychedelics helping drug addicts and people suffering from PTSD, it’s a shocking departure from Nixon’s ‘War on Drugs’ and Reagan’s ‘Just Say No’ anti-drug campaign, which both Democrats and Republicans showed little interest in challenging.
Since when did far-right figures who openly flirt with fascism switch their tune on shrooms?
Well, like everything in life, it’s complicated. The Republican Party has diversified in terms of ideology. The GOP used to primarily consist of two camps: dumb racists, and rich demons manipulating dumb racists. But since Ron Paul, a third strain of conservatism has risen to prominence: Libertarianism.
Libertarianism is the political equivalent of the racist who loves rap. They seem cooler than the uptight Wall Street Republicans who hang out in country clubs, and smarter than the typical MAGA moron, but the truth is that they’re not.
While it is true that Libertarians have no ideological qualms about you getting high as a kite on a heroic dose, they also have no qualms about the roads being privatized or the rivers being poisoned by big business. Their version of America is one with little to no governance other than protecting borders and issuing currency. Everyone is on their own and whoever is wealthiest fills the power vacuum. Basically less government makes corporations the de facto government. So yes, they’ll allow you to get high, they’ll also allow you to buy a bazooka at Walmart. They’ll allow you to do anything you want as long as it increases their profits and decreases their taxes.
There’s nothing wrong with shrooms or even LSD done in the right environment, but hippies should stop and think before they get excited about Trump’s shift in drug policy. The GOP may have realized with their recent mass deportations, complete disregard for due process, and opening of concentration camps that you have to be fuckin’ trippin’ to vote for them. So maybe they’re just meeting the voters where they’re at.
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