{"id":91331,"date":"2026-04-20T02:43:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/trump-on-psychedelic-treatment-for-depression-can-i-have-some-i-dont-have-time-to-be-depressed\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:43:35","slug":"trump-on-psychedelic-treatment-for-depression-can-i-have-some-i-dont-have-time-to-be-depressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/trump-on-psychedelic-treatment-for-depression-can-i-have-some-i-dont-have-time-to-be-depressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump on Psychedelic Treatment For Depression: &#8220;Can I Have Some?&#8221; &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Have Time To Be Depressed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> President Donald Trump was surprised to read on Saturday, during the announcement of an executive order fast-tracking psychedelics for treating mental health conditions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/04\/19\/full_video_trump_signs_executive_order_fast-tracking_review_of_psychedelics_for_mental_health_disorders.html\">(full video here)<\/a>, that some studies have suggested ibogaine has an 80-90% effectiveness at treating depression and anxiety.   &#8220;Can I have some, please? I&#8217;ll take it. I&#8217;ll take whatever it takes. I don&#8217;t have time to be depressed,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;You know, if you stay busy enough, maybe that works too. That&#8217;s what I do.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Because the pricing-not only is it important, but the pricing is going good-and you&#8217;re going to get the rescheduling done, right? Please, will you get the rescheduling done?  You know they&#8217;re slow-walking me on the rescheduling. Okay? You&#8217;re going to get it done, right?  In a 2024 study from Stanford University, 30 special operations veterans with traumatic brain injuries underwent what&#8217;s called ibogaine treatment-ibogaine. Remember the name.  Is that pronounced relatively properly, what you said? I don&#8217;t want to get it wrong. Ibogaine-because it&#8217;s so important-and experienced an 80 to 90% reduction in symptoms of depression and anxiety within one month.  Can I have some, please? I&#8217;ll take it. I&#8217;ll take whatever it takes. I don&#8217;t have time to be depressed, you know. If you stay busy enough, maybe that works too. That&#8217;s what I do.  Republican leaders have already committed $  50 million to ibogaine research, and today the federal government is making a $  50 million research investment of its own. That was just approved last night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/04\/19\/trump_on_psychedelic_treatment_for_depression_can_i_have_some_i_dont_have_time_to_be_depressed.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump was surprised to read on Saturday, during the announcement of an executive order fast-tracking psychedelics for treating mental health conditions (full video here), that some studies have suggested ibogaine has an 80-90% effectiveness at treating depression and anxiety. &#8220;Can I have some, please? I&#8217;ll take it. I&#8217;ll take whatever it takes. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28817,4529,322,4358,1645,312,958,5395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}