A Navy SEAL veteran credited with killing Osama Bin Laden says psychedelic therapy has helped him process the trauma he experienced during his time in the military, stressing that “it works” and should be an available treatment option.

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host who now hosts his own podcast series, Rob O’Neill of the SEAL Team 6 team discussed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and how his supervised use of the psychedelic ibogaine in Mexico has helped him stabilize himself psychologically after enduring various traumas during and after his service.

“I do ibogaine now. I do psychedelics,” he said, adding that he takes the treatment outside of the U.S.—where the substance remains a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)—once a year to prevent symptoms of PTSD.

“What the psychedelics do is they get me structured,” O’Neill, who founded the New York-based cannabis company Operator Canna, said. “It works.”

“I’ve seen guys try to drink their way out of [PTSD], which is horrible,” he said. “The alcohol doesn’t help but the psychedelics do. And that’s why they’re not legal here: because it works. I don’t know why they won’t help the veterans with that”

O’Neill noted that there are organizations such as Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions (VETS) that are helping to facilitate psychedelic treatment for veterans, but he said the government should be doing more to provide access to the treatment domestically particularly for the veteran community

“We get veterans and first responders to Mexico,” he said of another company, Ambio. “But we should have this in New York at the VA. We should have it in Virginia and California. Veterans should be able to get ibogaine administered medically and that’s how they do it in Mexico.”

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