‘Warp-speeding this treatment’: Trump’s VA readies psychedelic therapy for up to 2 million veterans Politico | October 30, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/10/30/warp-speeding-this-treatment-trumps-va-readies-psychedelic-therapy-for-up-to-2-million-veterans/ The Veterans Health Administration wants to be ready to offer psychedelics like psilocybin and MDMA to as many as 2.1 million veterans with PTSD or depression — even though no regulator has yet deemed the drugs safe or effective for mental illness, as Politico’s Amanda Friedman reports. Andrew Gradison, a senior adviser at the VA, laid out that ambition at the Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics conference in New York. Reality will lag behind, he admitted: “Our demand will exceed our ability to supply these therapies, no doubt.” Even treating “four digits worth of patients” in the first year after an FDA approval will be a challenge.