Trump Cabinet pick used same illegal psychedelic to 'find love' that Prince Harry has admitted to using

Daily Mail​

14-05-2025

Casey Means, President Donald Trump 's cabinet pick for Surgeon General, spoke favorably about the use of psychedelic mushrooms to help treat her mental anxiety and find love.
Means wrote about the use of psychedelic mushroom (psilocybin) therapy in her 2024 book 'Good Energy,' where she said she personally experienced the benefits of the treatment.
'If you feel called, I also encourage you to explore intentional, guided psilocybin therapy,' she wrote. 'Strong scientific evidence suggests that this psychedelic therapy can be one of the most meaningful experiences of life for some people, as they have been for me.'
In one of her newsletters, Means revealed that taking mushrooms was one of nine steps she took to 'find love' at the age of 35.
'I did plant medicine experiences with trusted guides and wrote extensively about my experience and insights,' she wrote, adding the mushroom emoji to illustrate what she was talking about.
She also revealed her experience in her book after taking mushrooms for the first time.
'Psilocybin can be a doorway to a different reality that is free from the limiting beliefs of my ego, feelings, and personal history,' she wrote.
The experience, she said, helped her break from previous patterns.
'I felt myself as part of an infinite and unbroken series of cosmic nesting dolls of millions of mothers and babies before me from the beginning of life,' she wrote.
Psilocybin is illegal under federal law as it is listed as a Schedule 1 drug.
But a growing number of celebrities, podcasters, and champions of alternative medicine are sharing antedotal stories about how hallucinogenics helped them move past their traumatic experiences.
Prince Harry revealed his use of psychedelics to help treat his past traumas especially surrounding the death of his mother.
'Psychedelics did me some good as well. I'd experimented with them over the years, for fun, but now I'd begun to use them therapeutically, medicinally,' he wrote. 'They didn't simply allow me to escape reality for a while, they let me redefine reality.'
The use of psychedelic mushrooms is frequently promoted by health advocates in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement pioneered by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as an alternative plant-based medicine to treat medical anxiety and addiction.
Podcaster Joe Rogan routinely mentions the benefits of rescheduling marijuana and psychedelic psilocybin for medical research, citing successful anecdotal testimonies and treatments for veterans.
During the 2024 campaign, Rogan spoke with JD Vance about the issue during their October 31 interview.
'I know a bunch of different guys that have gone down to Mexico and had psilocybin journeys and all these different things where they've encountered these experiences that have made them sort of rethink who they are,' said Rogan.
Former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan, now a prominent podcaster, shared his personal experience of two psilocybin journeys that took place over several days helping him move beyond the use of sleep meds, anxiety treatment drugs, and Adderall.
My mind is open to the idea of psychedelics for treatment. People ought to have the freedom and the liberty to experiment with these hallucinogens to overcome debilitating disorders. pic.twitter.com/CXVuI64DvH
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) September 21, 2024
'I went down a skeptic, and came out a completely different person, the person I'm supposed to be,' Ryan said afterwards.
Means brother, Caley Means, is now an entrepreneur who has said he was so impressed by psychedelics that he invested in companies that are researching the benefits of those treatments.
Trump's appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his Health and Human Services Secretary has raised hopes among investors of psilocybin based treatments that it could get removed from government classification as a section one drug to a section three drug, allowing it to be researched for health benefits.
During his failed 2024 presidential campaign, Kennedy endorsed the freedom to use psychedelic drugs for treatment.
'I would legalize psychedelic drugs—some form of legalization,' he said, adding that 'there's so many people being helped in different ways by them, and we have to make it easier.'
Kennedy revealed his son successfully went on an ayahuasca journey that helped him heal from the trauma of losing his mother as a young boy.
'When he came back from that trip, he was completely changed. He was very open about talking about his feelings, he was on a real spiritual quest,' Kennedy said at a town hall discussion.