Georgia lawmakers discussed the therapeutic potential of psychedelics like psilocybin for serious mental health conditions at a hearing focused on military veterans last week.
Experts and people with personal experience with psychedelic treatment testified before the House Defense and Veterans Affairs Committee, sharing information about emerging research into the medical value of entheogenic substances and the long-term benefits they may have for conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The panel approved a bipartisan resolution in March that called for the formation of a House study committee to investigate the therapeutic potential of psychedelics and make recommendations for reforms. But as Chairman Heath Clark (R) explained, there were more than a dozen study committee that were created during the last session, and the psychedelics proposal was set aside and not enacted.
The legislation, sponsored by House Appropriations Public Safety Subcommittee Chairman Bill Hitchens (R), might not have crossed the finish line this past session—but Clark said “this is a discussion we need to have and make some recommendations for this body going forward in the next session to look at moving forward and potentially seeing some funds to get the study off the ground.”
Clark, who is retiring
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