Connecticut Quietly Opened Its Psychedelic Therapy Pilot to Any Qualifying Adult
We missed this one when Governor Ned Lamont signed it on June 4 — bubbling it up now because it's a bigger structural change than the headline size suggests. SB 191 passed the Connecticut Senate 35-0 and House 122-27, expanding a small, Yale-run pilot that had covered about 20 veterans into a program open to any adult 18+ who meets clinical criteria, including first responders and frontline health care workers with treatment-resistant depression or PTSD. The program stays under a state medical school's FDA-approved research umbrella — this isn't open access, it's still a supervised research pathway. The detail worth noting: the new law also removes the original sunset clause that would have ended the pilot once federal approval happened, which reads less like a stopgap now and more like Connecticut building permanent infrastructure ahead of an approval it expects to actually arrive.
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