(TNS) A Kentucky lawmaker wants to revisit a previously abandoned idea for the state to fund research of an illegal psychedelic drug for its potential to treat drug addiction.

Calling addiction a “scourge” in Kentucky, Nicholasville Republican state Sen. Donald Douglas told the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services Aug. 27 in Frankfort, “we can’t — and we shouldn’t — continue in this same cycle.”

Douglas, who is also a doctor, said an alternative to medication-assisted treatment drugs like Suboxone, a low-grade opioid prescribed to treat opioid use disorder, is needed.

“We’ve been dealing with the same clinical model for decades,” Douglas said. “It ain’t working, folks.”

Douglas proposed investing state resources to research ibogaine, a psychedelic, as a possible therapeutic to cu

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