Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes there will be an “enormous demand” for psychedelic therapies as they become legally available, and he thinks President Donald Trump is unique among his predecessors in championing the issue.
The secretary was speaking on the latest episode of a podcast he hosts for HHS in which he interviewed Bryan Hubbard, the CEO of Americans for Ibogaine.
“One of the challenges that we will also face in the federal government [is] there’s going to be a demand for it,” Kennedy said of psychedelics. “If we do get it to the point where where it becomes available for veterans, there’s going to be an enormous demand for it and you need for every veteran treated approximately more than 100 hours of support staff. So there’s an expense attached to it.”
The secretary also cited an executive order that Trump signed earlier this year to streamline research and access into psychedelic medicine.
“I can’t picture any other president in American history who would have done what he did. He turned on a dime,” Kennedy said. “He got it in his head that this was something that he wanted to do.”
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