Veterans Heal Fight Addiction Lead Nation

We have so much strength in the veteran community. I mean, we take over countries on behalf of our country. And I think it's time we get ourselves well so we can take over our country on behalf of the people. And that happens very efficiently within the veteran community. That's really first step of the whole plan is getting veterans healthy and well. And you're starting to see that. You're seeing a tremendous amount of veterans that are being involved in politics more now who are getting embedded into institutions. When you have a common ethos to serve a cause greater than yourself, and that's something that drives you, it's very effective and it's very positive and it's good for everybody. And so that's why I really advocate the way that I do. That speaks a lot to me personally. Having overcome addiction issues myself, mine was alcohol, which I used to address things around my TBIs, traumatic brain injuries that affect me. And you talk about trauma clusters and man, all this stuff speaks to me. But I think really, really important point in there is the need to address addiction first and foremost, right? Because my experience with addictions that are also paved over with SSRIs and other things, it's just a terrible cocktail to use the term. But I had to first address, and it's still a battle that I deal with to this day, but it also is a source of my strength. And so to the same effect, anyone out there that's suffering in that manner, I'm open anytime to assist as best as I can, but there are resources available. And even when you're talking about the use, I know that there's a new program in the military itself through the VA for hallucinogenic. Do you know anything about the progression of that? I do know some folks that have had access to ketamine, which they consider, somebody actually challenged me on this the other day, but they didn't know who they were talking to. I was invited to sit on a three-day workshop with the NIH, specifically on psychedelics. And I used to say that, I mean, on this one call, let's talk about scary, on this one call, there were like 27 countries, more countries than that. I mean, there were dozens and dozens of countries on this one conference call. And it was the equivalent of their countries in NIH. The first thing that pops up is, it's kind of scary that that many people can get on a call from so many different countries and get everything synchronized. That's a little scary. It kind of lets you know how other things happened, right? At the same time, I felt a lot of genuineness on the people there because in the first day, they open up and they say, in the 60s, there were some really great phase three trials that were showing how this was stopping addictions. Psychedelic therapies were stopping addictions. And they go into the whole thing.