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Sen. Donald Douglas, a Republican from Nicholasville, pitched his bill to allow research into the psychoactive drug ibogaine in Kentucky to a House committee alongside GOP Sen. Aaron Reed of Shelbyville.
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The psychedelic drug ibogaine is a Schedule I controlled substance, but Kentucky lawmakers are considering a bill researching its uses for treating addiction and PTSD.
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    What are the consequences of environmental deregulation? The Trump administration has done away with the “endangerment finding,” an EPA process that had identified six greenhouse gases as dangerous to human health under the Clean Air Act.
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    Episode 27 of our series, “Democracy Optimist,” hosted by University of Kentucky election law and voting rights research professor Joshua Douglas.
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