A veteran (someone who served in the military) who died in an unsafe, unregulated ibogaine treatment facility abroad will create a news story that forces Congress to hold a public hearing about ibogaine safety and access. Thousands of veterans are traveling to foreign countries for ibogaine treatment annually because it's not available or illegal in the US, and deaths in unregulated settings do occur. The delay here is that this needs to happen in the next ~7 months with enough media attention to trigger congressional action.
Thousands of veterans are accessing ibogaine abroad annually. Fatalities in unregulated settings are documented in the literature. A high-profile death with a traceable VA failure backstory is statistically plausible within the timeframe. Congress has demonstrated responsiveness to veteran-linked psychedelic issues (NDAA ibogaine provisions). However, translating a death into a formal hearing within ~7 months requires specific media uptake and congressional champion alignment, which introduces meaningful execution risk. Confidence set conservatively.