Rick Doblin: 'Welcome to the psychedelic '20s!'

Reason's Nick Gillespie talked with MAPS founder Rick Doblin about the imminent FDA approval of MDMA- and psilocybin-assisted therapy at the Psychedelic Science.
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"Welcome to the psychedelic '20s!" Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, or MAPS, proclaimed in his keynote speech to open the Psychedelic Science 2023 conference. At the event organized by MAPS in Denver this June, a reported 13,000 people gathered to talk about what seemed like every possible topic related to the productive use of these substances.
Founded in the late 1980s, MAPS has spent decades working to get approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD and related conditions.
The payoff for those decades of work are coming to fruition. The FDA is expected to approve therapy using psilocybin-the psychoactive ingredients in magic mushrooms-and MDMA-the drug also known as ecstasy and molly. And Oregon and Colorado have decriminalized the recreational use of plant-based psychedelics.
Watch Nick Gillespie's full interview with Doblin, which was featured in Reason's 32-minute documentary on the psychedelic renaissance, discussing the long path to FDA approval and what comes next in the world of psychedelic legalization.

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[@katlinkate]

Strongly recommend just sticking to shrooms if you want an hallucinogenic experience. I was given “acid" one time by someone I trusted (at the time) and it turned out too intense that the trip lasted for 24 hours. Can't really be sure what you're getting aside from shrooms. Cause I personally have never had a bad experience with mushrooms though.

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LSD and mushrooms completely changed my whole outlook on life. I became a better version of myself This experience gave me a lot of confidence about my self and my body. A bunch of bad thought / behavior patterns were broken. One of these was pretty bad OCD that made me wash my hands a lot. It gave me a lot of hope that things will be fine, this is the one thing that I heard throughout the trip: Everything is alright. The main reason for the trip was my severe depression and it definitely helped me (although it's not gone). Before all I could do was lay in bed. Now I am trying to rebuild my life one step at a time which wasn't possible before."

[@WesleyCarter2tw]

Loved this. I battle from depression, anxiety & C-PTSD, I’ve heard shrooms cured depression. Wish doctors were more open to natural medicines over big pharma but we know why

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[@avajohnson2636]

I had a moment on my first mushroom trip where i was lying in bed and lost total connection to my physical body. I felt as i was just a dot of energy on my pillow such a crazy feeling and made me smile, really realized that we are really nothing but energy and had an overwhelming feeling from that trip onwards.

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How frustrating the slowness of the medicinal application with the FDA, yet it if was a dumb arse supposed vaccine it would fly through. I appreciate the patience of Rick going down that route as I know it's painfully ridiculous and ultimately it will be applied so narrowly it will be too restrictive and expensive for most people to have access to it but even so this does change for the better for the rest of us going into plant medicine healing path.

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This reminds me of the psychedelic '60's and Dr. Timothy Leary and the psychedelic drug scene.

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[@cflynn3684]

I believe ketamine could have extreme potential in low doses for helping cure chronic pain for people who have phantom pains, especially those who’ve been put on addictive opioids for long term pain and have trouble breaking free from the clutches. Sadly it gets a bad rap as it’s “psychedelic”, related to PCP, and some use it just to get high. But I’ve almost never heard of ketamine addiction, and it isn’t known to cause the horrific hallucinations and symptoms that PCP causes.

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Until you start peeing blood Ketamin isn't a long term solution.

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Habitual use is gross side effects build up, recreational users are a kind of junky it’s ugly.

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It certainly worked for Michael Jackson 😁

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@@LynyrdSkynyrd.4Ever Wow! You must be quite ignorant to confuse your drugs like that! Don't you know the difference between a psychedelic and a sedative? Moron.

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100% on board but I don't think maps is a good name for it

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I thought the same about the name as soon as I heard it.

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It’s an acronym. Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

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[@RyeOnHam]

I'd say that treating mental and physical problems with MDMA, Ketamine, shrooms, etc. is on the same level as opioids, yet opioids are legal?

there's some "new" (~4-5 years) law for a drug assisted therapy. If you use "research chemicals". Or you can get to 3-FEA (much less serotogenic - neurotoxic) instead MDMA, various ket analogues, 4-ACO-DMT for psilocybin... rather easily no therapy needed

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Opioids are pain meds for surgery recovery. Mdma doesn’t help with that. So two different worlds.

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@@jaytea4093 Thanks! Yeah, I'm a "little-L" libertarian since 1986 when Reagan signed the FOPA with the Hughes Amendment.

[@RyeOnHam]

@@bryanutility9609 Opioids are most often used for getting high. Hate to burst your bubble if you don't already know this. MDMA is also used for getting high. In recreational use, not much difference there. The difference is in how the FDA treats them.

[@DegreesOfThree]

Israeli narcotics traffickers are heavily involved in the MDMA trade. -Source: US Dept of State

[@DegreesOfThree]

Doblin has extensive family ties in Israel and Israel was the first country to approve MDMA for the treatment of PTSD. Source: Times of Israel How convenient... traumatize soldiers by fighting pointless wars for Israel, and then manipulate the system so that insurance companies then have to pay for MDMA treatment at ridiculously inflated prices. Gee, I wonder if Doblin has any ties to people that might benefit financially from his psychedelic evangelism?

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This guy learned nothing from the mouse utopia experiment...

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This guy is the new Timothy Leary. Wonder if he is going to end up the same way.

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No... he's not.

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Rick has been around for a long time, he’s a lab coat nerd. Terrence McKenna was a visionary intellectual like Tim Leary. His talks are all over KZbin.

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Educate yourself...dont be so ignorant...

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Fear fear fear

[@heteroerectus]

Yeah he sounds pretty much like a typical psychedelic proponent. He talks rationally one minute and then he’s speaking gibberish about everything being connected and how psychedelics are good because of global warming the next.

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A solution looking for a problem 😂

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I feel so sorry for you that you have never experienced the transcendent connection of all living beings. 🙏🕉️

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Yes let's make a pleasurable distraction to the truth...why not

[@johnwesely]

It can be a route to truth as well if you treat it that way.

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Why "distraction"..?

[@Neuman357]

Interesting comment. Please elaborate.

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"we happy few"

[@bryanutility9609]

@@Neuman357we’re literally on the brink of collapse & 1984 tyranny. Some nerd smoking dmt isn’t going to all the sudden change that, much less wake up to it.

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It’s hillarous that he uses the Russo-Ukraine conflict as an example of why we need the military. I think we’ll find aiding the Ukrainians was mistake in a few years

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This guy is so woke. Hearing him spew BS completely delegitimizes any valid argument he may have

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Sad Well, it’s your life, not mine

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Meh.. it’s also half the reason you and me have to deal with vagrants shuffling around talking to themselves

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But it is. Quantum physics cognizes "Oneness" as the basis of existence.

[@TheDashingRogue]

until it takes over in the aggregate then there will be homes for the junkies who lost there minds. all at the tax payers expense.

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Fear fear fear

[@catlover4479]

That's exactly the kind of apathy in Ann Rand's philosophy of selfishness. Of course you don't care about anyone but yourself. Furthermore, you dwell in sorrow about things that have absolutely nothing to do with you. What a pointless, purposeless, u psychedelic existence. We hear you judgment and isolation.

[@emetzger]

You notice who's NOT advocating psychedelics....neuroscientists.

[@I3lindMan]

Scientists really don't advocate for or against anything, they use various methods to describe how the world around us works.

[@richardwebb6978]

Incorrect. All of the following prominent scientists are either neuroscientists or working directly with neuroscientists and have advocated for the use of psychedelics for various mental health related issues. 1. Robin Carhart-Harris - Studied psychedelics' effects on the brain. 2. David E. Nichols - Explored molecular mechanisms of psychedelics. 3. Franz X. Vollenweider - Researched the neural impacts of psychedelics like LSD. 4. Matthew W. Johnson- Investigated neuroscientific aspects of psychedelics for therapy. 5. Roland R. Griffiths - Conducted neuroscientific research on psilocybin's therapeutic potential. 6. Michael Mithoefer - Researched MDMA's therapeutic uses. 7. Katherine MacLean - Studied the brain effects of psychedelics for personal growth. 8. Stephen Ross - Explored neuroscientific implications of psychedelics for addiction treatment. 9. Amanda Feilding - While not a neuroscientist, she's the founder of the Beckley Foundation which has significantly funded and facilitated groundbreaking psychedelic research in collaboration with leading neuroscientists. Amanda Feilding's inclusion is justified given her instrumental role in advancing the field of psychedelic research. Even though she isn't a neuroscientist by training, her foundation's work has enabled many neuroscientists to conduct their research, bridging the gap between funding, policy, and scientific exploration. You're welcome!

?? maybe MDMA (not a real psychedelic), but other than that I've noticed much pushback

[@richardwebb6978]

@ several of the ones listed have explored and advocated for a psilocybin, LSD and others.

[@catlover4479]

Many neuroscientists at the Maps conference. Also Repug politicians.

[@dances_with_incels]

Alright , I'm getting sick of these drugy episodes

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Just go away then. You’re causing climate change.

[@dalethomasdewitt]

manage your bio chemical balance in reference to cognition outlook perception no matter what primary sense you depend upon. It's a private matter which ticks many off when publicized with misperceptions slander power plays etc..

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[@catlover4479]

Druggy has two gs. You're repeatedly sick because of your unresolved childhood trauma. Quit trauma bonding to anyone who will. Heal thyself.