Texas Closer to Passing Bill That Studies Medicinal Psychoactive Drugs

The State of Texas has now approved a bill that instructs the government to study the potential benefits of certain psychedelics on certain mental disorders. It passed with a 6-0 (with one member absent) majority in the Senate Committee on Veteran Affairs and Border Security.

This is a massive surprise, since the bill only narrowly scraped by in the Democratic-led House of Representatives and was not expected to draw much support in the GOP-dominated Senate. However, the bill isn’t clear of all hurdles just yet. The Senate made some adjustments to the bill before approving it. Because of those amendments, the bill heads back to the House again before for review of the changes before it can go to Governor Greg Abbott’s desk to sign into law.

Particularly notable in those changes is what was left out from the new version of the bill.
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