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Psychedelic Policy Briefing: Week of June 16, 2026
Federal psychedelic policy in 2026 splits in two directions. Lawmakers and military officials are building clinical infrastructure for experimental therapeutics, while enforcement agencies freeze access and criminalize new compounds. The House Armed Services Committee is directing the Pentagon to investigate psilocybin pathways for service members, the VA is preparing for MDMA approvals, and Congress is codifying Trump’s April executive order into law. Meanwhile, the DEA has stalled a three-year-old rescheduling petition and moved to emergency-ban a ketamine analog after only 52 law enforcement encounters. Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins acknowledged the federal government has no ibogaine sourcing plan—and no budget for one. The result is a fragmented policy landscape where access and criminalization advance simultaneously, leaving patients and researchers in bureaucratic limbo.
By Jack Gorsline
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Utah’s Quiet Revolution: Why HB 390 May Be the Most Significant Psychedelic Legislation of 2026
Utah’s HB 390 authorizes a state-funded clinical study of psychedelic-assisted therapy for veterans with treatment-resistant…
By Logan Davidson
Three Brain Injuries, One Iboga Protocol, and What It Tells Us
Three people with lasting symptoms after a brain injury went through a six-week iboga microdosing…
By Joe Moore
The War on Drugs Was Never About Drugs. Psychedelic Healing Must Reckon With That.
MAPS policy lead Sia Henry argues that psychedelic healing can’t stop at veterans and the…
By Sia Henry, J.D.
At the Federal Psychedelic Medicine Summit, the Mood Was Urgent, Practical, and Increasingly Coordinated
At the Federal Summit on Psychedelic Medicine, policymakers, researchers, clinicians, and veterans advocates spent a…
By Joe Moore
Music in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: An Introduction to Sound, Playlist Curation, and Why Every Practitioner Needs to Understand Both
If you’ve ever sat with a client in a ketamine or psilocybin session and quietly…
By Kyle Buller, MS
The War on Drugs Is a War On Mothers and Their Children
Betty Aldworth argues that the drug war has functioned as gender policy, separating mothers from…