President Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Casey Means, will soon appear before the Senate for confirmation hearings. The nomination, first made on May 7, has come under some question. While Means graduated from the Stanford University School of Medicine, she later dropped out of her residency program. However, the reasons senators should be skeptical of this nomination are more substantial.
A friend of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has recommended her to Trump as a “fantastic” candidate, Means is an advocate and practitioner of the use of illegal psychedelic drugs, including psilocybin and ecstasy, for medical purposes. Her brother, Calley Means, is a Trump administration health adviser and investor in biopharmaceutical start-up companies. In 2024, the two co-wrote a book titled Good Energy, making the case for “psychedelic therapy.”
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