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The heat wave in London town continues.

I don't think I can remember any of the time where we've had so many continuous days of 25 degree plus

weather, sunshine and complete lack of rain. I know this is going to continue for a while but part of me in a weird

weird way wants a little rain to come back and remind me of the good old days of

living in England. It's been a fabulous summer run here. I'm Brian Rose from London Real. This week on the

show we have Mr Rick Doblin who is the founder and director of maps which is an institution that he created in 1986 to

with one purpose in mind and that is to get approved MDMA as an FDA approved drug and that was his main

function of this organization it's since branched out to try to get the FDA to approve psychedelics, cannabis, and other type drugs for medical purposes with the ideas that once it becomes accepted as medicine

then potentially we can even prescribe it for non-medical uses and you know Rick has

always been at the forefront of the MDMA scene and if there's any one thing that's his calling card I would say it is

is MDMA whereas other people specialize in in other psychedelics that's the one that he's

always been a champion of and he's been fighting the good fight he's been fighting the government and fighting the DEA since the 80s

He saw the

prohibition of MDMA coming he was working on it for years even before it was banned and

he's just a long-range thinker. Rick is almost turning 60

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