Minnesota House approves a study of a therapeutic magic mushroom study

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]I am working on a story, putting together a story on magic mushrooms and what exactly the legislature did and didn't do when it comes to magic mushrooms. This is how confusing the legislature can be. I thought that they had actually passed and authorized a study for an actual study with magic mushrooms starting next year. They didn't do that.

[00:00:22]They authorized a study on a study. In other words, a study for a study on magic mushrooms. In my story, um I'm going to be talking to Stephen Egan who is a work in counterintelligence, had five deployments, and really had a suicide attempt.

[00:00:42]And before he was finally, somebody said, "Why don't you try magic mushrooms?" And it saved his life. And I'm going to talk to him because he's one of the reasons that this proposal is moving forward. Basically, it's inched forward. It hasn't moved forward as much as supporters want.

[00:00:57]But it's an it's an interesting issue and at the heart of it, like with Stephen's story, he had PTSD, he had all these traumatic experiences, and the magic mushrooms under a therapeutic session allows him to go back and examine his feelings at the at the time even though he had blacked those out.

[00:01:18]So, it's fascinating stuff. It really could hold keys to depression and all kinds of mental illnesses.

[00:01:25]It's it's a work in progress, though.

[00:01:27]Again, what the what the legislature did is they didn't authorize the actual study, but they authorized a study about a study.