When conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to the social media site X (formerly Twitter) last month to threaten the Food and Drug Administration, he included a laundry list of items that he wants to deregulate if elected to a health leadership position under the incoming Trump Administration. For the most part, all of the items Kennedy listed — including clean foods, raw milk, and stem cells — seemed to fall in line with his campaign to prioritize personal choice and new age or experimental medicines while upending regulatory bodies like the FDA.
But Kennedy also listed psychedelic drugs, which are banned in most parts of the world, as something under the FDA’s “aggressive suppression,” which may come as a surprise to those who associate psychedelics with “flower children” of the 1960s and not the far-right libertarian crowd that Kennedy has historically drawn. As one supporter commented on his post, “I disagree on the psychedelics which are horrible, but on everything else, yes.”
