2024 Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr says he would legalize psychedelics if elected President.
Speaking at a town hall and answering questions about his candidacy, RFK Jr, son of Robert F Kenney and nephew of JFK, showed that he is willing to take a progressive stance on psychedelics and marijuana.
“I would legalize psychedelic drugs—some form of legalization” said RFK Jr.
He went to speak, in vague terms, of regulated access to psychedelics for therapeutic reasons, taxing legalized psychedelics and using that revenue to create healing centers for those struggling with addiction.
“There’s so many people being helped in different ways by them, and we have to make it easier—maybe to prescribe them or to give them therapeutically.”
“I don’t know about just buying them in stores. I have to look at all that,” he said. “But in one way or another, we need to make it easy for people to use them in ways that could benefit our children and could benefit everybody. I’ve seen it in my own family, the benefits of it.”
“I’ve seen miraculous recoveries from psychedelic drugs from PTSD from veterans who have used it, from people who have suffered severe depression, OCD and many, many other injuries.”
“I’m not saying blanket legalization—but we need to make it easy for psychiatrists and therapists who are trained to be able to use this on their patients [as] an experiment and see if we get good results,” said Kennedy
See the event here. RFK speaks about psychedelics at around the 42 min mark.
