Leonard Gilroy
@lengilroy
@ReasonFdn VP of Gov Reform & Senior Managing Director of Reason's Pension Integrity Project @ReasonPensions
Former Gov. Rick Perry says he's dedicating his life to ibogaine—launching Americans for Ibogaine to raise awareness and push for research that could save lives. Read more in his Washington Post op-ed. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
Thank you @SecVetAffairs for stopping by. Pleasure to meet you and show what we’ve built at @DeptVetAffairs for our veterans. We’re excited about the expansion of our Center @MSPsychedelics at the VA and the two new studies that have just begun here with MDMA and psilocybin.
Visited the VA Bronx Health Care System today to have a look at some of the groundbreaking research they are doing regarding potential psychedelic treatments for Veterans. Excellent work!
"It should worry taxpayers that after spending time in government, @elonmusk says that landing humans on Mars is in the same difficulty range as getting D.C.’s elected class to end its chronic spending addiction." — @lengilroy in @sdutOpinion sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/06/05/opi…
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Public teacher pension systems are somewhere between $300-500 BILLION underfunded today and all AFT is griping about is Tesla stock? Focus, people…focus. benefitspro.com/2025/04/03/ame…
Psychedelics used to be so edgy to talk about. Now, federal tax $ is used to study their effects in mice & there are human clinical trials completed & ongoing. People are discussing psilocybin for longevity. MDMA & ibogaine likely to gain FDA approval soon. Things. Have. Changed.
Compass Pathways Successfully Achieves Primary Endpoint in First Phase 3 Trial Evaluating COMP360 Psilocybin for Treatment-Resistant Depression businesswire.com/news/home/2025…
Information added to the Annual Pension Solvency and Performance Report finds the median funded ratio across public pension plans decreased marginally to 75.8%. reason.org/commentary/tot…
Standing here in front of the White House, I’m filled with hope. What we just accomplished in Texas—$50 million for ibogaine research—isn’t just a policy win, it’s a lifeline. For every person battling addiction or trauma, this marks the start of a new chapter. Texas showed the…
State lawmakers are pushing unnecessary public pension bills that would increase taxpayers’ costs and debt dailynews.com/2025/05/01/sta… via @PensionZachary @ladailynews
I want to thank @RepJamesComer for inviting me to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on how to resolve the FDA's mismanagement of the tobacco market. FDA makes it almost impossible to get safer nicotine products to market, especially from…
Mississippi adopts hybrid retirement design in major pension reform reason.org/commentary/mis… via @ReasonFdn Great news for Mississippi. Shifting to a lower risk hybrid plan design is a major—and perhaps the most difficult—step towards addressing >$25B in unfunded liabilities,…
New from Reason: Exploring new data on the safety of psychedelics reason.org/commentary/exp… via @ReasonFdn @ferenstein check out our new data dashboard exploring the public health and safety impacts to date resulting from key psychedelic policy reforms (decrim and/or regulated…
Science & Tech Spotlight: Medical Use of Psychedelics gao.gov/products/gao-2…
Stakeholders in public retirement systems should adopt effective plans for new hires while maintaining their commitment to existing employees. reason.org/commentary/why…
Psychedelic policy reform efforts now stretch coast-to-coast in the 2025 state legislative session!
Psychedelic Policy Push Continues: 60+ Bills, 22 States Read our round-up of bills as the tally surpasses sixty across 22 states. That means there’s a band of proposed psychedelic policy reforms from coast-to-coast across the contiguous United States. psychedelicalpha.com/news/psychedel…