Rick Doblin - MDMA Is Medicine

00:00 | Trailer
02:43 Brian’s thoughts on the episode
05:14 Brian’s introduction
05:56 What has contributed to current public willingness for conversation about psychedelics in medicine
10:59 Ibogaine could help people get off opiate addiction
13:44 SSRIs have suited pharma industry well, but the field of psychiatry is looking for new ways to help
16:29 How can the public be persuaded to consider so-called party drugs as therapeutic
21:30 Risk for those taking MDMA in therapy, later becoming ravers
26:30 How MDMA therapy can help those with PTSD resulting from different types of trauma
31:11 MDMA history and how Rick has maintained a fourty-five year, long term plan, for MDMA use
45:47 More people died from drug overdoses in 2017 than entire Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars
47:51 What Rick thinks the drug scene will be like in 2035
52:35 The 50-year Marijuana cycle MAPS hopes to break before the election
55:55 The typical MDMA therapy patient
58:21 Why MDMA is not mentioned by Michael Pollan in his book and Terence McKenna didn’t favour it
1:02:31 Moving story of how Rick’s grandmother inspires his work and his work with PTSDA veterans
1:16:24 An unexpected windfall
1:24:30 Meeting the EMA1:32:11 An anti-patent strategy, how people who have received help from MDMA can help cause
1:36:43 How MAPS is training therapists, despite MDMA being an illegal drug
1:40:37 Political rift caused by acceptance of a donation for healing from trauma study
1:49:43 Why Rick’s plea is, come out of the closet; act responsibly; help people through experience
1:52:55 The concept of a 100-year plan1:55:56 Brian’s summing up.