"The town of Mayfield, which has already been through too much, has had significant rain and likely significant damage. For all the communities that have been impacted, I am now signing a state of emergency," Beshear said in a video posted to Twitter Wednesday.

Western Kentucky has seen waves of thunderstorms that are blanketing cities like Mayfield in water, prompting several water rescues across the area.

Graves County, which is home to the city of Mayfield, has seen 11.28 inches of rainfall from 12 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, which would break the 24 hour rainfall record for the state if verified, according to the National Weather Service of Paducah, Kentucky. The previous 24 hour record was 10.48 inches in 1997 in Louisville, Kentucky, according to NWS.

Mayfield is still recovering from an EF4 tornado that left 80 people dead in December 2021.

"Major flooding like many have never seen is occurring," the Graves County Sheriff's Office wrote in a post on Facebook early Wednesday morning. The office also shared photos of washed out roads now closed due to the storm.

Adult migrants, who will begin to be notified in the coming weeks, will receive “intensified casework services” to explore housing options and plan their next steps, according to a city press release.

If migrants cannot find alternative housing by the end of the 60 days, they will be required to reapply for shelter.

“We have no more room in the city,” Adams said at a press conference on Wednesday, adding, “This cannot continue. It’s not sustainable, and we’re not going to pretend as though this is sustainable. This is wrong that New York City is carrying the weight of a national problem.” 

More than 90,000 migrants have arrived in New York City since the spring of 2022, over 54,800 of which remain in the city’s care.

The city will also begin distributing flyers at the southern border, warning migrants that there is “no guarantee” of shelter and services for new arrivals and that New York City housing, food and transportation costs are expensive.

“Please consider another city as you make your decision about where to settle in the U.S.,” the flyer reads.

Brad Lander, the city comptroller, criticized the new shelter policy for migrants on Wednesday, warning that it would put more people on the streets and strain other city services.

“The Mayor’s announcement today doesn’t just undermine the right-to-shelter, but the defining role of New York as a beacon of promise, inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty," Lander added in a statement.

The suit, filed in federal court Wednesday, claims that the DeSantis administration purposely did not fulfill the requirements of the 2018 Amendment 4 to the state constitution, which restores voting rights for some convicted felons in the state.

“Florida has failed to realize the promise of Amendment 4. Since the Amendment was passed in 2018, the Defendants have created and perpetuated a bureaucratic morass that prevents people with prior felony convictions from voting or even determining whether they are eligible to vote,” the suit reads.

“This is not simply the result of administrative failures or bureaucratic ineptitude. Rather, the record reveals a years’ long campaign of acts and omissions by the Defendants that have thwarted the aspirations of the citizens of Florida who enacted Amendment 4, and the aspirations of those whose rights it restored,” it continues.

The suit also claims that Florida’s “election police” unit, formed in 2022 to investigate illegal voting and other electoral crimes, has discriminatorily targeted those impacted by Amendment 4.

“This effort, coupled with the earlier-created roadblocks to registration, has turned the simple act of voting into a complicated and risky venture in the eyes of those who were re-enfranchised by Amendment 4, as well as others who have been affected by the Defendants’ conduct,” the suit says.

The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, a group which advocated for Amendment 4’s passage, brought the suit alongside four people who the suit says were negatively impacted by the DeSantis administration's actions.

The group called the bureaucratic process required to be reenfranchised “an embarrassment.”

One of the four additional plaintiffs, Rhoshanda Bryant-Jones, refrained from voting in 2022 after she said she saw the election police unit arrest multiple felons who voted in the 2020 election, believing they were following the law. 

Bryant-Jones was reenfranchised in 2020 and voted in that election, but said she was intimidated by the DeSantis administration’s actions.

DeSantis’s office did not respond to a request for comment by publication.

The new map, approved by a 74-27 vote, would increase the percentage of Black voters in Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District from around 30 percent to nearly 42.5 percent. However, it would not create a second majority-Black district as the court ordered.

The Alabama legislature convened a special session to redraw the state’s congressional districts, after the Supreme Court ruled in June that the current map likely violates the Voting Rights Act and affirmed the lower court’s ruling that ordered the state to draw a new map with an additional majority-Black district.

“This is really a slap in the face, not only to Black Alabamians, but to the Supreme Court,” Democratic state Rep. Barbara Drummond said of the newly approved map on the House floor on Wednesday, according to The Washington Post.

Another Democratic lawmaker, Rep. Prince Chestnut, warned that the state had “once again” decided to “be on the wrong side of history.”

“Once again, the [Republican] super majority decided that the voting rights of Black people are nothing that this state is bound to respect,” Chestnut said, according to The Associated Press. “And it’s offensive. It’s wrong,”

However, Republican House Speaker Pro Tempore Chris Pringle argued that the district provides “an opportunity for the minorities to elect a candidate of their choosing.” 

“The court said we had to provide an opportunity and that’s what that district does,” he said, according to the AP.

A state Senate committee also approved a separate map on Tuesday that would increase the percentage of Black voters in the 2nd congressional district from 30 percent to 38 percent. The state legislature has until Friday to approve a final map.

Marina Jenkins, the executive director of the National Redistricting Foundation, criticized both proposed maps in a statement on Tuesday, saying they do not “come anywhere close” to complying with the court’s order.

“Alabama Republicans are intentionally drawing political retention maps at the expense of Black Alabamians—in defiance of the Supreme Court and the Alabama district court,” Jenkins added. “It is a continuation of the state’s long, sordid history of disenfranchising Black voters.”

Gov. Josh Green (D) had declared the emergency Tuesday in anticipation of the storm. He granted administrative leave for all nonessential government employees on the Big Island and warned residents to prepare for mudslides and wind damage.

“I spoke with the FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] director today; they’re prepared to support us in case of a big disaster,” Green said in a video message Tuesday.

The storm poured as much as 2 inches of rain on parts of the Big Island Tuesday, the National Weather Service (NWS) said. A total of 4 to 8 inches of rain is expected on the island, according to Green.

The storm’s winds are about 45 miles per hour with gusts topping 55 miles per hour, NWS said. It is forecast to weaken as it moves west across the other Hawaiian islands Wednesday.

"One bus with migrants on board from Texas arrived around 6:30 PM PT today at Union Station," the statement said. "The City has continued to work with City Departments, the County, and a coalition of nonprofit organizations, in addition to our faith partners, to execute a plan set in place earlier this year. As we have before, when we became aware of the bus yesterday, we activated our plan."

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has previously sent three buses of migrants from Texas immigration facilities to Los Angeles, a scheme Abbott said is meant to protest undocumented immigrant protections in the city.

“Los Angeles is a major city that migrants seek to go to, particularly now that its city leaders approved its self-declared sanctuary city status," Abbott said in a release last month.

"Our border communities are on the frontlines of President Biden’s border crisis, and Texas will continue providing this much-needed relief until he steps up to do his job and secure the border," he wrote.

The Los Angeles mayor’s office said each bus came with about a day’s notice, requiring a significant partnership with local nonprofits to help the migrants.

Abbott has sent more than 20,000 migrants around the country on buses, mostly to so-called sanctuary cities including Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. 

The program, which will be administered jointly by the California Labor & Workforce Development Agency and the Department of Social Services, will include case review services, legal advice and representation by an attorney, according to the governor’s office.

“Farmworkers are the backbone of our economy and we won’t stand by as bad actors use the threat of deportation as a form of exploitation,” Newsom said in a statement.

“In the absence of Congress modernizing our broken, outdated immigration system, California continues our efforts to support immigrant families,” the governor added.

Legal services will be available to farmworkers whose cases are under review in the Department of Industrial Relations’s Labor Commissioner’s Office, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health or the Agricultural Relations Board, per the terms of the program.

The pilot will focus on supporting the enforcement of labor rights, particularly during worksite-wide investigations, and will not be limited based on an individual’s immigration status, the terms stressed.  

About half of California’s farmworkers are undocumented. Fears of retaliation from employers — such as threats of deportation — are common reasons why many individuals do not submit labor claims, the governor’s office noted.

“Prosecutorial discretion ensures that farmworkers will be empowered to enforce their labor rights and stand up against the abuse and exploitation they often face,” Diana Tellefson Torres, CEO of the United Farm Workers Foundation, said in a statement.

“It is of utmost importance that undocumented workers have access to free and low-cost legal services, so that any farmworker who has experienced workplace violations can come forward knowing they are protected from deportation,” Tellefson Torres added.

The Department of Labor’s Occupational Health and Safety Administration and Wage and Hour Division have both “opened inspections” at the Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg in the wake of the Friday incident, according to a DOL spokesperson.

The victim has been identified as Duvan Tomas Perez, originally from Guatemala, by local authorities and a family member, according to NBC News, which noted that workers under the age of 18 are not allowed to work in poultry plants for safety reasons.

Forrest County Deputy Coroner Lisa Klem told NBC that Perez’s death was due to equipment at the plant, and that his autopsy results will be released Wednesday.

A fellow worker at the plant, on duty at the time of the incident, reportedly said he heard Perez scream for help, but that it was too late. 

“Two times he began to scream, ‘Help! Help!’” the worker said. "I knew he had died," they added.

The Hill has reached out to Mar-Jac Poultry for comment.

"Any issues identified in the investigation will be corrected immediately," Joe Colee, the manager of the facility, told NBC.

"We strive daily to work as safely as possible and are truly devastated whenever an employee is injured," Colee added.

The death is reportedly the second at the Hattiesburg Mar-Jac in less than three years.

“You do need to investigate to see: Has this person had a bias towards Muslims?” state Rep. Maryam Khan (D) told NBC News. “The fact that there was none of that was very problematic to me.”

Khan was assaulted after attending an Eid al-Adha service in Hartford last month, leaving her with a concussion and an injured right arm and shoulder. The suspect, 30-year-old Andrey Desmond, is facing charges including misdemeanor assault, unlawful restraint, breach of peace and interfering with police.

He allegedly made sexual advances toward Khan and her daughters, with Khan saying that he slapped her, put her in a chokehold and threw her against the ground.

“I tried to de-escalate. I tried to distract,” she told NBC. “He just kept persisting.”

Officials filed more charges against Desmond earlier this week, but hate crime charges were not among them. Hartford State’s Attorney Sharmese Walcott added felony charges Monday of attempted third-degree sexual assault, second-degree assault, strangulation and risk of injury to children to Desmond’s case.

The Hill reached out to Walcott’s office for comment.

Khan, who was the first Muslim to be elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives, accused police earlier this month of downplaying the attack, saying it was much more violent than what was described in the police report.

“All I keep thinking in these last few days is what happens to women in the city of Hartford that call the police when they are assaulted, when they experience what I experienced, when they experience sexual assault, when they experience physical assault,” she said.

“I knew in that moment my body went numb, and I thought I was going to die."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Glynn Neal allegedly stabbed one of Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) staffers as they and a friend were leaving a restaurant.

The staffer was stabbed multiple times in the head and chest, suffering life-threatening injuries, but survived. Neal was charged with assault with intent to kill.

Last week, Judge Anthony Epstein ordered a psychological evaluation. According to police reports, Neal said he “heard voices” encouraging him to commit the attack.

He was released from prison the day before the attack after serving about 12 years for threats to kidnap a person and forcing a person into prostitution.

In last week’s hearing, Neal’s sister told detectives that he “acted different” since being released from prison, including talking to himself.

Neal will undergo further psychological testing and will be evaluated again before his next court appearance on Sept. 8. He will remain in jail in D.C.

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- Delta Air Lines canceled a flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta on Monday after extreme heat led to illnesses among passengers.

The number of passengers who were sick was not disclosed in a statement from the airline. Reports that the passengers were in the cabin on the ground for four hours could not be confirmed.

"We apologize for the experience our customers had on Flight 555 from Las Vegas to Atlanta on July 17, which ultimately resulted in a flight cancelation. Delta teams are looking into the circumstances that led to uncomfortable temperatures inside the cabin and we appreciate the efforts of our people and first responders at Harry Reid International."

The apology to customers came along with a "compensatory gesture," the airline said.

Multiple people were reportedly wheeled off the plane by paramedics, and multiple flight attendants were also said to have fallen ill.

The official high temperature in Las Vegas on Monday was 108 degrees, 9 degrees lower than on Saturday when the temperature was just a degree below the all-time record of 117.

Delta said passengers on Flight 555 were moved to other flights.

At least one customer sought treatment for heat-related discomfort, according to the airline.

"Medical teams responded to a call aboard an aircraft yesterday afternoon," according to a statement from Reid International Airport late Tuesday afternoon. The statement directed further questions to Delta.

Planes do have air conditioning, a former pilot Billy Nolen told The New York Times. In most cases, there is a cooling system that works when the engines are on and an auxiliary unit that supplies cool air when the plane is on the tarmac.

But, planes can get hot, like when it is switching between cooling systems, Nolen notes. A plane sitting in warm weather will also, inevitably, get warm, just as your car does when it sits in the sun.

Democrats and Latino organizations are lambasting Texas officials over a report this week that the state's troopers have been ordered to systematically violate the human rights of migrants, including by pushing children into the Rio Grande and denying water aid in extreme heat.

The Houston Chronicle report, based on an email written by a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper, detailed a series of incidents where migrants were seriously injured or killed by measures set in place by Texas to deter them from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

"If true, this is atrocious, barbaric, and downright wrong," wrote White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in a tweet responding to the report.

"It would also not be surprising coming from a Governor who abandoned migrant children on the side of the road in below freezing temperatures on Christmas Eve," she added.

Much of the criticism over the human rights violations alleged in the report has been directed at Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who launched Operation Lone Star, a state-run border crackdown, in 2021.

“Texas is deploying every tool and strategy to deter and repel illegal crossings between ports of entry as President Biden’s dangerous open border policies entice migrants from over 150 countries to risk their lives entering the country illegally," Andrew Mahaleris, a spokesperson for Abbott, told The Hill in an email.

"The absence of razor wire and other deterrence strategies encourages migrants to make unsafe and illegal crossings between ports of entry, while making the job of Texas National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers more dangerous and difficult. President Biden has unleashed a chaos on the border that’s unsustainable, and we have a constitutional duty to respond to this unprecedented crisis,” said Mahaleris.

But Texas Democrats in the House of Representatives on Tuesday excoriated the governor, saying no amount of deterrence is worth the violations described in the trooper's email.

"We learned last night that a state trooper sent in what looks like an official email details about Operation Lone Star and directives by DPS leadership to not allow migrants — even those who may be struggling to survive in the water, perhaps on the verge of drowning — to not help them, to push them back towards Mexico in the water," said Rep. Joaquín Castro (D-Texas).

The email detailed cases including one where a pregnant woman miscarried trapped in the razor wire set up by DPS, one where a 4-year-old girl passed out from heat exhaustion as she attempted to pass through the wire only to be pushed back by Texas National Guard soldiers, and a case where a teenage boy broke his leg in the razor wire and had to be carried out by his father.

The trooper who wrote the email also alluded to an order to deny water to heat-stricken migrants and to "traps" set up to catch migrants off guard in the wire.

According to the report, DPS spokesman Travis Considine denied that an order to deny water to migrants was ever issued, but didn't comment on other allegations in the email.

DPS did not respond to The Hill's request for further comment, but the agency announced Tuesday it is conducting an internal investigation into the allegations.

Under Operation Lone Star, DPS agents have set up razor wire installations along known crossing points, as well as chains of buoys in sections of the Rio Grande to make crossing more difficult.

The Democrats also took aim at Abbott for the buoy system, both on the grounds that they could trap migrants underwater and because they allegedly violate international boundary regulations.

"I believe that they're drowning devices. Those buoys are not only set up on the surface of the water but also have net well below them so that people can get trapped in them and also can't go around them at all, even to try to save themselves," said Castro.

Rep. Henry Cuéllar (D-Texas), who represents the border city of Laredo, said the buoys had the potential to change the boundary with Mexico, which has raised concerns about the system.

"The problem we have is that the state is not cooperating, or working, or coordinating at all with the federal government," Cuéllar said.

"They're going solo on it, and I certainly stand with my colleagues to make sure that we find out exactly what's happening. Again, we want to see border security but at the same time you've got to treat the migrants with respect and dignity."

While Abbott has said his government is acting to fill gaps where the Biden administration is not performing its duties, Democrats say the state's foray into immigration and border policy is out of constitutional bounds.

"Let me be very clear: The jurisdiction of immigration is a federal constitutional grounded responsibility. It is the responsibility of President Joe Biden and his administration, and he has taken that responsibility seriously," said Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas).

The Texas Democrats called on Biden to act more aggressively to impose federal authority at the border, and even called for international organizations to intervene.

"I call on the Department of Justice to investigate these cruel actions toward migrants. Razor wire and barrels in the river, pushing children back into the river and denying water during extreme heat are just deliberate acts of torture," said Rep. Sylvia García (D-Texas). 

"It goes against everything that we have ever been taught as Texans, and it goes beyond politics and crosses the line into human rights violations. I would call in the United Nations to look at this."

But the lawmakers recognized that Abbott is politically motivated to stay the course.

"He's not going to listen because it's working for him. It's working for his base. And I don't really think that he thinks about children. He doesn't think about what he's doing to people and how he's hurting them. He's looking at how it works for his base, and whatever he deems he's going to do next in terms of his race, whether it's for governor or something else," García said.

Still, the Democrats took the opportunity to slam Abbott, who has comfortably won three gubernatorial elections.

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) said he was reluctant to believe all the allegations in the letter but called for Abbott's impeachment if the email is accurate.

"If this is true, articles of impeachment ought to be brought against this governor. He is unfit to hold any office of public trust, especially one as high as being governor of the state of Texas. You don't do this. Children are at risk. Babies," said Green. 

"Governor, you have made a mistake. If this is true, you've crossed a line and you ought not continue to serve."

Domingo García, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the country's oldest Latino civil rights organization, called for Abbott to "answer" for Operation Lone Star.

"LULAC condemns the inhumane treatment of innocent people and denounces the use of razor wire, buoys, and any other barriers that jeopardize the safety of women and children seeking asylum. These are Christian refugees, and they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect," said García.

"Operation Lone Star is utterly barbaric, and Governor Abbott and all those supporting him must answer for their actions. What would Jesus say about such treatment of the most vulnerable in society?"

The Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed to The Hill the Texas Office of Inspector General is investigating the trooper’s allegations, noting, “There is not a directive or policy that instructs Troopers to withhold water from migrants or push them back into the river.”  

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) began deploying buoys in the middle of the Rio Grande River earlier this July as part of his latest push to secure the border with Mexico. The buoys are supposed to serve as floating barriers to prevent people from swimming across the river and into the United States.  

In a July 3 email shared with The Hill by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), the concerned trooper-medic said he and other trooper-medics came across an “exhausted and tired” group of 120 people camped out along the fence line. The trooper said the shift officer in command ordered the troopers “to push the people back into the water to go to Mexico.” When troopers voiced their concerns about drowning to the command, the trooper said he was told to “tell them to go to Mexico and get into our vehicle and leave.” 

The Houston Courrier was the first to report on the email.

The trooper told Texas DPS of four people he treated on the same day, including:  

• A 4-year-old girl who tried to cross the razor wire but was pushed back by Texas Guard soldiers in temperatures exceeding 100 degrees. He claimed she later passed out due to exhaustion.  
• A man who had a laceration to one of his legs from what he claims was the razor wire. 
• A 15-year-old boy who broke his right leg while trying to avoid the razor wire.  
• A 19-year-old woman who was stuck in the razor wire while having a miscarriage.  

“With the causality wire running for several miles along the river in areas where it is easier for people to cross [...] It forces people to cross in other areas that are deeper and not as safe for people carrying kids and bags,” the trooper wrote in the email.  

The trooper claimed five people drowned in the same week near the buoys, including a mother and two children who attempted to cross over a more treacherous part of the river.

In a separate email shared with The Hill, officials from the Texas DPS discussed an “increase of injuries” from the wire, with the agency’s director, Steven McCraw, pushing for a review of safety measures.  

“The smugglers care not if the migrants are injured, but we do, and we must take all the necessary measures to mitigate the risk to them including injuries from trying [to] cross over from the concertina wire, drownings and dehydration,” McCraw wrote in an email chain.

Abbott on Tuesday addressed the trooper's concerns in a joint statement with Texas Border Czar Mike Banks, McCraw and Texas Adjutant General Major General Thomas Suelzer.

"No orders or directions have been given under Operation Lone Star that would compromise the lives of those attempting to cross the border illegally," reads the statement from the governor's office. "The Texas Department of Public Safety and Texas Military Department continue taking steps to monitor migrants in distress, provide appropriate medical attention when needed, and encourage them to use one of the 29 international bridges along the Texas-Mexico Border where they can safely and legally cross."

The statement also addressed the claims of withholding water, stating, "All personnel assigned to Operation Lone Star are prepared to detect and respond to any individuals who may need water or medical attention."

The Hill has reached out to the Texas Office of Inspector General for comment.  

But psilocybin — the active compound derived from magic mushrooms — can help these patients find relief, a group of Texas-based scientists wrote in the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer on Tuesday.

That’s part of a new openness in Texas — and the medical community as a whole — to ever-broader applications for the mind-expanding substances.

Next year the signatories of Tuesday’s letter — a group of researchers at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston — will begin a study investigating whether psilocybin can help restore the mental health of the increasing number of patients living with advanced cancers.

That group of long-haulers is a cadre that largely didn’t exist a decade ago, said Amit Moran, a cancer biologist at MD Anderson.

“Ten years ago, you were cured, or you died,” Moran told The Hill.

But a rise of targeted cancer treatments has created a new group of patients living on the expanding frontiers of cancer treatment.

“More and more patients survive longer with cancer — they can live two years, five years, even 10 years,” Moran said.

Many of these patients, Moran said, “experience anxiety, depression and existential crisis.”

In particular, women facing late-stage ovarian cancer face overwhelming anxiety and “existential distress” as they stare down the prospect of a painful death and leaving their families behind, Moran and his coauthors wrote.

“These people know that one day they’ll do scan and see progression [in their tumors],” he said. “And they don’t know if that will be 6 months or 10 years.” 

Moran and his colleagues are looking into whether psilocybin could help, as this compound has been shown to offer considerable relief to those dying of terminal cancer — but has never been tested on those living with it.

“Our goal is to alleviate those symptoms to allow them to go back to functioning,” Moran said.

Both the journal letter and MD Anderson study are part of a new renaissance in the medical applications of “psychedelics” — an umbrella category that lumps together such pharmacologically distant compounds as psilocybin, MDMA and ketamine.

While these have very different structures and work on different parts of the brain, they share a common ability to help a patient radically — and often rapidly — reframe their relationship to previously intolerable life circumstances.

A 2021 meta-analysis of terminally ill patients who had received psychedelics for existential distress found that  both classical psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD and “atypical” ones such as MDMA and ketamine left the dying with “positive effects on existential and spiritual well-being, quality of life, acceptance, and reduction of anxiety and depression.”

Another study of psilocybin specifically found that a single dose could leave even healthy individuals with “long-lasting increases in mindfulness.”

These findings have been persuasive enough to convince even Texas’ highly conservative legislature — partly because of the state’s disproportionate number of veterans of U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of whom returned emotionally and mentally scarred.

In 2021, the Texas legislature passed a bipartisan law authorizing the state’s Department of Health to begin studying the use of MDMA, ketamine and psilocybin for a wide range of physical and emotional ailments.

“To me, this may be one of the most hopeful pieces of legislation that members of the Legislature have the opportunity to consider this session,” former Gov. Rick Perry (R) told reporters in 2021.

By November of 2021, the first study was underway: a joint state, federal and university effort to understand whether psilocybin could help alleviate post-traumatic stress disorders in veterans.

The prevalence of psychological suffering has blunted the partisan nature around psychedelics, one researcher on that study suggested to Houston Public Media.

“I think many people are at the point of ‘I will try anything,' whether they're conservative, anti-drug, whatever it is,” said Lynette Averill of the Texas-based Baylor College of Medicine.

Psychedelic research remains in its infancy, Moran noted. Of the more than 140,000 active clinical trials in the country, only 79 are looking into psychedelics. Of those, only a dozen are looking at cancer — and those are all focused on those who are dying. 

While cancer treatments can keep tumors in check for a long time, Moran hopes that psychedelic treatments can “bring them back to the job market, get out of bed, regain their functionality,” he said.

“The goal is not just to give them life — but a life worth living,” he added.

The “All Eyez on Me” rapper, who used the stage name 2Pac, was killed in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting at 25. His death remains unsolved.

“LVMPD can confirm a search warrant was served in Henderson, Nevada, on July 17,” police said in a statement to ITK.

The search warrant, the department said, was “part of the ongoing Tupac Shakur homicide investigation.”

The LVMPD said it would not comment further on the search warrant, served more than two decades after the famed performer’s death.