{"id":82209,"date":"2026-04-18T08:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82209"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:57:12","slug":"trump-expected-to-loosen-restrictions-on-psychedelic-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/trump-expected-to-loosen-restrictions-on-psychedelic-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Expected to Loosen Restrictions on Psychedelic Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">President Trump is planning to sign an executive order intended to boost research and ease federal restrictions on psychedelic compounds that have shown promise in treating a range of intractable mental health conditions, according to three senior administration officials familiar with the discussions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">The drugs include LSD, Ecstasy and psilocybin. The measure would also provide $50 million for state-level research into ibogaine, a powerful psychedelic made from the root of a Central African shrub that has been drawing interest from researchers for its potential to\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37927218\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">treat opioid use disorder<\/a> and other forms of substance abuse.\u00a0The funding will most immediately benefit Texas, which has already committed $50 million to studying ibogaine. The order could come as early as Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1776502632\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Trump Expected to Loosen Restrictions on Psychedelic Drugs\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: President Trump is planning to sign an executive order intended to boost research and ease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82210,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82209\/revisions\/82210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}