Podcast 402 – “Global Psychedelic Research Update”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

Personal Journals, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences, Philosophy

4.8 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Guest speaker: Rick Doblin PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Rick Doblin.] “Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance of these drugs as having beneficial properties. And then the step to legalization is not that far behind that.” “The government has a monopoly on the supply of marijuana that you can use in FDA-approved research. So even though there are 20 states and the District of Columbia [that have legalized medical marijuana], and there's marijuana everywhere, we've spent seven years trying to get 10 grams of marijuana for vaporizer research. We're the only people in America that can't get 10 grams of marijuana.” “We are all dying and we all have some anxiety about it. And so people are more scared of dying than they are of drugs. If we can show that people who are facing death can be assisted with psychedelics that's a powerful message.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option MAPS Sponsored: MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Research “The New Drug They Call 'Ecstasy' ” (New York Magazine, May 20, 1985) "Confessions of an Ecstasy Advocate" (video) "Confessions of an Ecstasy Advocate" (podcast)

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0:00.0	Greetings from
0:02.0	Greetings from
0:06.0	musical
0:07.0	linguistic
0:08.0	artchids
0:10.0	Healthy
0:11.0	Greetings
0:12.0	from Cyberdelic Space
0:16.0	This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.
0:23.5	And today we'll be traveling back in time to the 2013 Burning Man Festival
0:28.3	and join the good people at Camp Soft Landing for yet another of the Palenque Norte lectures.
0:34.9	And our guest speaker today is Rick Doblin, the founder and president of the
0:39.8	Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, or Maps.
0:45.1	In some of my previous podcasts of Rick's talks, I've mentioned the fact that Rick and I began
0:50.5	corresponding even before he founded Maps.
0:53.8	And now that Maps is so successful, it's easy to forget about the fact that Rick has been at this for a long, long time.
1:00.7	If you've heard my own story about how I first became involved with MDMA,
1:05.3	you may remember me mentioning that there was only a very limited amount of printed information about it.
1:12.0	And one of the less than 10 documents that we could find at the time was titled,
1:17.0	MDMA enters the Global Brain, a report on a visit to the World Health Organization.
1:24.3	And the author of that report, which was dated March 2nd, 1985, was none other than Rick Doblin.
1:31.8	I've still got a copy of this report in my files, and to this day it still astounds me that some young guy would have the courage to approach the World Health Organization in an attempt to promote a new drug.
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