So consequently, I don't drink.Īlso, in this formative stage of life for me, during the protest for Vietnam, there was this divide: if you're a hippie, you smoke pot, and you're against the war. I passed through the fun stage and just got sick. The first time I did it, I mixed grape Tang-which was this powdered drink mix the astronauts get-with vodka. At college, I did try to get drunk really fast just to see what it was like. The first time I ever tasted carbonation, I was like, that's horrible. I'm never going to do it.” So I've never had a cup of coffee in my whole life. I thought, “Oh, my dad's addicted to coffee. So I grew up watching him drink, like, 12 cups of coffee a day. Back in the olden days, he would have to do a lot of house calls in the middle of the night. Well, I'm unusual in a couple of ways about drugs. What was your first ever drug experience? So it's a lot easier and a lot less expensive to give somebody LSD than to shoot them up in space. Then you get some of these astronauts talking about how when they saw the Earth from space, they changed their views. I was coming to these ideas right around the same time that the moon landing took place. Not just the idea of it, but the felt experience of it. The antidote to genocide, to environmental destruction, was the sense of connection. So the core idea was, psychedelics are this unitive, mystical state-you realize we're all connected, and we have more in common than different. and Russia blow up the world? How could we do these things? How can we trash the environment? How can we be so cruel to animals? How do we prejudice against different religions, countries, genders, or races? You do it through this process of dehumanizing. 10 years before I knew about MDMA, the idea was, how do people go through murdering people? How did we get the Holocaust? How could the U.S. With other studies showing similarly promising results for the potential of psilocybin to treat depression, its approval should not be far behind. After a second successful trial, which is happening right now and will wrap in October 2022, Doblin believes FDA approval of MDMA is likely to happen by the end of 2023. Two months after treatment, 67 percent of participants in the MDMA group no longer qualified for a diagnosis of PTSD, compared with 32 percent in the placebo group.”) It is the first Phase 3 clinical trial to include psychedelic-assisted therapy. those who received MDMA during therapy experienced a significantly greater reduction in the severity of their symptoms compared with those who received therapy and an inactive placebo. (According to The New York Times, “Of the 90 people who took part in the study. It’s Doblin’s lab that produced the study, whose results were published earlier this spring, on the promising effects of MDMA-assisted therapy in treating patients with severe PTSD. But consider that, in the 1980’s, Doblin dedicated his life to making the health benefits and healing powers of psychedelics available for mass use-a grand vision that would’ve seemed extremely unlikely four decades ago and now seems inevitable, thanks largely to the work of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a nonprofit organization Doblin founded in 1986. That’s the year that psychedelic researcher Rick Doblin speculates (and hopes) that psychedelics and psychedelic-assisted therapies will have penetrated mainstream culture enough to create a “spiritualized humanity” that's psychologically well-equipped enough to solve seemingly intractable crises like environmental destruction and economic inequity.ĭoes that seem a bit idealistic? Sure.
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