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One evening in May, about thirty guests\u2014oil executives, Navy SEAL<\/em>s, and D.C. political operatives among them\u2014arrived at the Coronado Club, in downtown Houston, where Texas\u2019s ultra-wealthy have converged since the nineteen-fifties. Walking past portraits of nineteenth-century Galveston gentry, they filed into the dining room, where QR codes and envelopes had been placed on tabletops to collect donations for Americans for Ibogaine, a pro-psychedelics nonprofit. As waiters in black suits served steak and peach cobbler, Rick Perry, the former Texas governor and the former Republican Presidential candidate, and the chairman of Americans for Ibogaine, leaped to his feet. In recent years, Perry has refashioned himself into a folksy elder statesman of the psychedelic movement, often describing himself as the \u201cJohnny Appleseed\u201d of plant medicines. Standing in front of a painting of the Rio Grande, Perry spoke about the chain of extraordinary events that had led President Donald Trump to sign an executive order, in April, expediting F.D.A. approval of psychedelic therapies. \u201cI\u2019m a very, very strong man of faith,\u201d Perry said. \u201cIt couldn\u2019t have happened without some divine intervention.\u201d Then he bowed his head and blessed the meal.<\/p>\n

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A scene like this, unimaginable a decade ago, marks a paradigm shift: increasingly, it is conservative leaders who are embracing research into psychedelics. Ibogaine, in particular\u2014a psychedelic drug derived from an African shrub\u2014has become a cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre for the American right. The drug\u2019s relative obscurity has allowed its champions to shake off the baggage of the nineteen-sixties, and to position its use, not as hippie hedonism but as a medical intervention compatible with patriotic duty and Christian faith. This framing has been remarkably effective at winning the support of red-state governments and securing substantial funding for psychedelic research. Buoyed by a countercultural drift, psychedelics now have more political clout than in any previous chapter of American history.<\/p>\n

The major force behind the ibogaine movement in recent years has been Bryan Hubbard, a Kentucky lawyer and lifelong Republican who co-founded Americans for Ibogaine alongside Perry, and stood behind Trump in the Oval Office during the executive-order signing. Born in Russell County, Virginia, Hubbard was largely raised by his grandfathers, both union coal miners with missing fingers, and still speaks with an Appalachian twang. He spent sixteen years practicing workers\u2019-compensation law in Kentucky\u2014a field that revealed the extent to which the opioid crisis had turned the region into an \u201capoca-billy hillscape,\u201d as he put it. After taking depositions from hundreds of people who had been debilitated by painkillers prescribed for their work injuries, Hubbard came to see addiction not as a moral failure but as the most visible symptom of a profound spiritual affliction at America\u2019s core.<\/p>\n

Hubbard went on to run Kentucky\u2019s Social Security disability system and its child-support-enforcement program, before leading its Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control. In 2022, the attorney general Daniel Cameron appointed him to lead Kentucky\u2019s newly formed opioid-abatement program, which was charged with distributing roughly half of the eight hundred and forty-two million dollars that the state had received from a settlement with opioid companies. After steering some of the funds toward naloxone and addiction-treatment programs, Hubbard began researching alternative rehabilitation therapies. He first learned about ibogaine from Julia Reibelt, the author of a popular Substack about her experiences with psychedelic therapy. Ibogaine has been used for decades in international clinics and underground circles to treat severe drug addiction; unlike psychedelics such as psilocybin, it has a reputation for mitigating acute opioid-withdrawal symptoms. Intrigued, Hubbard later flew to New York, where he grew convinced of the drug\u2019s potential after meeting with leading ibogaine researchers, veteran advocates, and philanthropists. He spent the following months organizing a series of public hearings in Kentucky where F.D.A. officials, Stanford researchers, and U.S. military veterans testified about ibogaine\u2019s benefits. But, just as Hubbard was on the cusp of allocating forty-two million dollars from the opioid settlement to ibogaine clinical trials, Cameron, his political benefactor, was replaced in the A.G.\u2019s office by Russell Coleman, a former F.B.I. agent. Displeased with Hubbard\u2019s ibogaine advocacy, Coleman called him into a meeting where, according to Hubbard, he was \u201cambushed\u201d and asked to resign. [Coleman cited \u201climited resources\u201d as part of the reasoning behind his opposition, and said that the state should be more focussed on the prevention side of the opioid crisis.]<\/p>\n

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Hubbard was undeterred. He started working with the REID<\/em> Foundation, a nonprofit founded by the G.O.P. operative Rex Elsass in honor of his son, who died of an overdose, to keep the cause alive. He met with elected officials as well as academic researchers in other states such as Washington and New Mexico, and came very close to getting an initiative off the ground in South Dakota, under then governor Kristi Noem, but days before making a formal announcement, budget constraints stymied the effort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Eventually, in the wake of that disappointment, Hubbard found Logan Davidson, the senior adviser of Texans for Greater Mental Health and the director of policy and advocacy of Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions. In 2021, Davidson had successfully shepherded the bill that made Texas the first state to fund psychedelic research, for psilocybin-assisted therapy for veterans\u2014a precedent that Hubbard thought could open a path forward for ibogaine. And, while other states had balked at the fifty-million-dollar price tag that Hubbard deemed necessary for the clinical trials, Texas had ended the year with a twenty-four-billion-dollar budget surplus from oil and gas revenues. \u201cTexas needs to finish the job I began in Kentucky,\u201d Hubbard told Davidson. But first he had to make one call.<\/p>\n

In September, 2023, after decades of suppressing anxiety and insomnia that he partially attributed to severe concussions he suffered as a high-school quarterback, Rick Perry went to a clinic outside Tijuana, where he lay down on a mattress, pulled on an eye mask, and started tripping on ibogaine. \u201cI was on a spaceship, and there were all these Mesoamerican symbols and hieroglyphics flying past me,\u201d he told me, by phone, from his ranch in Round Top, Texas. \u201cOut in the distance, one that caught my attention was Satan.\u201d The demon had \u201clittle horns\u201d and \u201cbaying teeth,\u201d but Perry felt no fear. \u201cHe came up right in front of me, and I said, \u2018Satan, get behind me,\u2019\u00a0\u201d Perry said. \u201cHe did disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same clinic, he smoked 5-MeO-DMT\u2014a highly potent psychedelic that can be found in the venom of the Colorado River toad\u2014which provoked a sort of spiritual ecstasy. \u201cIt was clearly the brightest, whitest, purest light that I\u2019ve ever been around in my life,\u201d he told me. \u201cI knew that I was in the presence of God, and that he loved me immeasurably.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perry said that an MRI taken before the trip showed mild brain atrophy, typical of a man in his seventies; another scan, taken six months later, showed none at all, and he recalled his neurosurgeon, Charles Gordon, telling him that he now had the brain of a forty-year-old. Countless veterans whom Perry had gotten to know had experienced similarly stark recoveries after exhausting conventional treatments for brain injuries and trauma, and turning to ibogaine. Between these firsthand testimonies from veterans, his own medical miracle, and the spiritual experience, Perry became convinced that helping legitimize ibogaine should be his life\u2019s mission. He understood psychedelics to be a reification of the Christian belief in life after death. That belief seemed especially potent the day we spoke\u2014thirty minutes before our interview, he\u2019d discovered that one of his five dogs had died. \u201cI got most of my crying out,\u201d Perry said, emotion still heavy in his voice. \u201cThis medicine is, for me, a confirming message that, after death, your spiritual home is waiting on you. There\u2019s nothing to be afraid of,\u201d he said, slowly. Then a long pause. \u201cI get to see my dog.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hubbard and Perry first met in June, 2023, after the ex-governor keynoted a psychedelics conference organized by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS<\/em>); Hubbard later reached out to him to see if he could assist with the effort to bring ibogaine to Texas. In October, 2024, the two invited thirty handpicked Texans\u2014veterans, researchers, donors\u2014to a war-council-style meeting in downtown Austin. \u201cI\u2019m the football coach, Bryan is the quarterback, and y\u2019all are the team,\u201d Perry told them.<\/p>\n

The veterans were a key part of the team. Unlike in Kentucky, where Hubbard pushed ibogaine as a broader treatment for former opioid addicts, the clinical trials that Hubbard, Perry, and Davidson were proposing, in Texas, would be centered on veterans, in keeping with the psilocybin precedent. Rick Doblin, the founder and president of MAPS<\/em>, had identified, decades earlier, that veterans, as a sympathetic constituency, were the surest route to bipartisan support. He pointed out that ibogaine\u2019s therapeutic potential had been evident since the nineteen-sixties. \u201cBut we need to show that the psychedelics are coming to heal people who society values, and we tend to demonize addicts.\u201d He added, \u201cThe fact that you can take psychedelics and stay Christian, stay Republican\u2014that\u2019s the key learning that society needed in order to integrate these drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the spring of 2025, the team built momentum through activities such as hosting private screenings of \u201cIn Waves and War,\u201d a documentary on Navy SEAL<\/em>s and psychedelic therapy, which they used to recruit dozens of legislators to their cause. At one point, they were holding seventy meetings a day; Davidson described the campaign as the most intense experience of his political career. It was also one of the weirdest. \u201cMost legislative and political efforts are pretty homogenous, but this was the strangest cast of characters you can imagine,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re standing up there next to Navy SEAL<\/em>s, career scientists, MAHA<\/em> hippies, traditional hippies, first responders\u2014everybody is getting in.\u201d<\/p>\n

That May, Hubbard was invited to a closed-door meeting with Texas\u2019s Speaker of the House, Dustin Burrows, and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, to make his case for fifty million dollars in state appropriations to bring ibogaine to Phase III clinical trials\u2014a sum that even his own team doubted he\u2019d land. Hubbard burned a wish ticket, believed to manifest desires, on the balcony of his hotel room before walking to the state capitol. The meeting had been scheduled to run for thirty minutes. After an hour and a half, Hubbard emerged, with his head down, then looked up at his team, who were standing outside waiting for him. He stomped his foot. \u201cFifty million fucking dollars,\u201d he said. The confirmation came by text two days later. It was like scoring the winning touchdown in the final minutes of a game.<\/p>\n

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In June, 2025, Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 2308, creating a framework for ibogaine clinical trials funded by partnerships between the state and private drug developers. The bill passed the Texas House 138\u20132, and the state Senate 27\u20134. By December, a consortium led by UTHealth Houston and U.T.M.B. Health had been awarded the fifty-million-dollar sum to lead the trials. \u201cDemocrats early on were, like, Yes, we support this, but we\u2019re not going to get tagged as the druggies,\u201d Davidson said. \u201cThat\u2019s where the conservative influence provides cover. Each side gets permission from the other side to do this.\u201d Hubbard told me that he hopes the win becomes a \u201cbig-bang singularity\u201d which other red states will follow. Today, nineteen states have pro-psychedelic legislation passed or pending, including Arizona, Oklahoma, and West Virginia.<\/p>\n

The city of Austin, meanwhile, \u201cis the psychedelic center of the world at this point,\u201d Paul Austin, the host of the \u201cThird Wave\u201d podcast and a microdosing coach for the entrepreneurial class, told me. A new archetype has emerged from this scene: the rugged libertarian cowboy. In March, at an Americans for Ibogaine event held during SXSW week at a MAHA<\/em>-adjacent wellness club in Austin, Hubbard, who sports a thick beard and shoulder-length hair, showed up in bluejeans and cowboy boots. Standing onstage near a refrigerator of raw milk, as the scent of barbecue wafted in the air, he delivered a fiery speech outlining ibogaine\u2019s emancipatory potential for the American people, channelling a Western sheriff\u2019s incorruptible sense of justice and a preacher\u2019s thundering conviction. Describing veterans as \u201cground zero\u201d for addiction and suicide, Hubbard noted that \u201cdeaths of despair\u201d have taken a million and a half American lives in the past ten years, a figure he said exceeds the number of U.S. soldiers killed in action since 1776. \u201cI don\u2019t care what culture you come from, what color you are, or what your political-party label is,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can look at the foundations of this country as they are now, and we see the crumbling and the cracking and the strain,\u201d he continued, his voice rising. \u201cYes, this is about ibogaine. But this is about the human condition, and what this country is supposed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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About two weeks later, Hubbard and Perry sat down with Joe Rogan, in his podcast studio, in Austin, for the second time. Their first conversation with Rogan introduced ibogaine to more than a million and a half viewers on YouTube, but their second appearance would prove even more consequential. As Perry told this story to the Coronado Club audience, back in May, he paused for dramatic effect. \u201cHere\u2019s what\u2019s happened,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re standing in the studio, microphones off. Joe Rogan says, \u2018What can I do to help you?\u2019 And Bryan said, \u2018Talk to the President.\u2019 It was really that simple. Rogan\u2014I hug his neck, man\u2014this guy literally texted the President.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Hubbard, Rogan sent Trump information about ibogaine\u2019s treatment outcomes for addicts and veterans suffering from P.T.S.D. When Rogan saw Trump at a U.F.C. fight in Miami, on April 11th, the President told Rogan that he thought ibogaine was a good idea. After that, things moved quickly. On April 18th, Hubbard was at the White House for the executive-order signing, which he described as an \u201cout-of-body psychedelic experience.\u201d Rogan opened with remarks about how the War on Drugs campaign was racist as Trump stared ahead impassively. Then Rogan told reporters Trump\u2019s reply when he first texted him about ibogaine: \u201cSounds great. Do you want F.D.A. approval? Let\u2019s do it.\u201d As the camera panned between Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump solicited testimonials about how great ibogaine is\u2014then briefly pivoted to Iran, before coming back to sign the order. \u201cCan I have some, please?\u201d Trump joked, while struggling to pronounce the word \u201cibogaine.\u201d He went on, \u201cI\u2019ll take whatever it takes. I don\u2019t have time to be depressed.\u201d It was the first time that a sitting U.S. President had spoken favorably about psychedelics.<\/p>\n

The executive order, titled \u201cAccelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness,\u201d directs federal agencies to improve co\u00f6rdination and reduce delays around psychedelic clinical trials and drug development; it also states that patients with life-threatening conditions can access these investigational drugs under the Right to Try Act. The order\u2019s singling out of ibogaine, the only psychedelic mentioned by name, surprised analysts, given how much less research exists on it than on psilocybin or MDMA. \u201cIt really couldn\u2019t have been based solely or even primarily on science, because the science is just so lacking,\u201d Mason Marks, a law professor at Michigan State University who specializes in F.D.A.and controlled-substances regulation, told me.<\/p>\n

Hubbard and Perry call ibogaine \u201cthe most sophisticated molecule on the planet,\u201d and often cite a 2024 Stanford study that found sharp reductions in P.T.S.D., depression, and anxiety symptoms among thirty Special Operations veterans with a history of traumatic brain injury. However, given the legal limitations, studies like the Stanford one are observational and limited to small groups, and the science behind ibogaine\u2019s supposedly miraculous workings remains thin. Also, ibogaine\u2019s prolongation of the heart\u2019s QT intervals carries a real risk of fatal arrhythmia. \u201cThis cardiotoxicity continues to be a concern, but researchers have developed protocols to try to address it,\u201d Nora Volkow, the longtime director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, told me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Marks and other legal experts noted that the executive order\u2019s actual provisions are fairly modest, and in some cases even unnecessary, like speeding up F.D.A. approval for reclassifying Schedule 1 drugs\u2014this already happens by law within three months of F.D.A. approval. \u201cIt\u2019s like condensing the last mile by a fraction,\u201d Marks said, explaining that it\u2019s the requirement for extensive clinical trials that makes the process so lengthy. And, although stock prices for drug companies researching psychedelics soared in reaction to the news, it remains unclear whether the order will actually expedite F.D.A. approval for such drugs. Matt Zorn, an H.H.S. lawyer with a background in psychedelics policy who drafted much of the order, pushed back at criticisms. \u201cJust because it\u2019s symbolic doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not functional,\u201d he told me. \u201cAn executive order forces something to the top of the agenda that may have languished at the bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n

The most tangible provision was the directing of tens of millions of dollars in federal funding to support state governments with psychedelic-research programs\u2014a move that implicitly favored Texas, the only state at that point with a framework and state-sanctioned funds to conduct ibogaine research. Four weeks later, Colorado launched its own ibogaine initiative, which Perry attributes to his conversations with Governor Jared Polis. The movement, as Hubbard hoped, had begun to spread.<\/p>\n

Back at the Coronado Club, over dessert, a guest raised what he saw as the central contradiction of the evening: preaching \u201cjust say no\u201d to kids while the attendees sat at a fund-raiser for ibogaine. \u201cMost of the people in this room are probably conservative, and we\u2019ve had to take a position that is almost the opposite of where we were, say, five years ago,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Perry clarified his position. \u201cI am still anti-drugs, recreationally,\u201d he said. \u201cI am very much against the legalization of drugs.\u201d Rather, he was advocating for these psychedelics to be rescheduled so that they could be researched, with the ultimate goal of dispensing psychedelic treatments under the health-care system with the same oversight as prescription medications. But other members of Texas\u2019s conservative establishment were still dubious. \u201cThey don\u2019t do that, and go to a concert?\u201d a woman asked, of the drugs in question. Another guest unintentionally hit on one of the movement\u2019s main unresolved tensions when he asked where ibogaine came from, and how its supply would be controlled long term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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After the executive order, a coalition of ibogaine practitioners had published an open letter warning of the risks of overharvesting the iboga plant and cutting out the Bwiti people of Gabon, who have used it ceremonially for generations. Hubbard told guests at the Coronado Club that his movement leans on both science and reverence. He noted that there is the capacity to create a self-contained, U.S.-based supply chain through yeast and algae that replicate ibogaine\u2019s alkaloid. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies are trying to develop an oral version of noribogaine, ibogaine\u2019s primary metabolite, and other companies are working on non-psychoactive derivatives. But he also insisted that there was still much to learn from the Bwiti. \u201cThey are the possessors of what I would call the master key of knowledge,\u201d Hubbard said. He said that one of his main priorities is \u201cmaking sure that they are involved, and can deliver what they have known now for centuries.\u201d In return, he said, U.S. researchers would offer \u201cscientific knowledge on things that can help improve life there,\u201d and the Bwiti would \u201cbe our full partner for the medicalization of Ibogaine in the U.S. and globally.\u201d Whether that priority can survive the process of medicalizing ibogaine remains an open question. \u201cHere\u2019s the other reality,\u201d he said, his voice lowering. \u201cThe systems that have fought the emergence of ibogaine specifically, and psychedelic medicine generally, over the past sixty years are now the same systems that are going to shepherd their emergence.\u201d\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n

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