Rep. Gary Brown, R-Cheyenne, this month unveiled House Bill 13, which would allow people in Wyoming to buy ivermectin without a prescription.
Used in some cases as a horse dewormer, ivermectin garnered controversy during the COVID-19 pandemic when President Joe Biden’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discouraged its use with slogans like, “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Serious y’all. Stop it.”
A group of doctors sued federal agencies in 2022, saying they waged a pressure campaign against them to block them from prescribing the drug.
The FDA settled that lawsuit in 2024.
If it becomes law, Brown’s bill would also specify that the state doesn’t classify the drug as a dangerous substance.
Brown told Cowboy State Daily on Monday that after watching other states pass this change in recent years, “I became really interested in it.”