The Indiana legislature has sent a bill to the governor’s desk that includes provisions to fund clinical research trials into psilocybin.
The House and Senate both passed the underlying legislation on health care issues, which was amended to add the psychedelics language, last week.
The reform provisions that lawmakers attached to the broader legislation were taken from a standalone measure from Sen. Ed Charbonneau (R) that cleared the Senate last month and then advanced through a House committee.
Charbonneau said in a press release on Friday that the intent of the proposal is to provide funding to “aid Indiana research institutions in studying the potential use of psilocybin in treating mental health and other medical conditions, especially in veterans and first responders.”
Under the amended bill that’s now going to Gov. Eric Holcomb (R), the state would create a therapeutic psilocybin research fund “for the purpose of providing financial assistance to research institutions in Indiana to study…the use of psilocybin to treat mental health and other medical conditions.”
Any research receiving funding under the legislation would need to include veterans and first responders regarding in the study sample.
Researchers would need to apply to the state Department of Health to
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