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...experimented with MDMA appear normal, and there's no obvious indication that something is amiss." Ricaurte says we may discover in 10 or 20 years that those appearances are horribly wrong, but others are more sanguine about MDMA's risks, given its benefits. For more than 15 years, Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, has been the world's most enthusiastic proponent of therapeutic MDMA use. He believes that the compound has a special ability to help people make sense of themselves and the world, that taking MDMA can lead people to inner truths. Independently wealthy...
...Doblin first tried MDMA in 1982, when it was still legal and when the phrase "open the unconscious" didn't sound quite so gooey. At that time, MDMA had a small following among avant-garde psychotherapists, who gave it to blindfolded patients in quiet offices and then asked them to discuss traumas. Many of the therapists had heard about MDMA from the published work of former Dow chemist Shulgin. According to Shulgin (who is often wrongly credited with discovering MDMA), another therapist to whom he gave the drug in turn named it Adam and introduced it to more than...
According to Doblin, the mounting evidence has the government running scared. With the increase in demand and visibility that the new studies presaged, the federal department of Health and Human Services announced that it would phase out a program that provided free marijuana to the very ill, fearing that publicity about the program would project a soft-on-drugs image. Because of the enormous amount of red tape involved, the program served only 12 individuals nationwide, but it was one of the few cracks in the government's otherwise united front in the war against drugs...
...Kennedy School's Doblin says that under some circumstances, "for some people [marijuana] is the best drug--better than anything on the market...
According to Kennedy School lecturer Mark A.R. Kleiman, co-author with Doblin of the Kennedy School study, the government's foot-dragging will continue to be at the expense of the public interest. "All of these issues could've easily been resolved five years ago with a little experimentation. This is really a case where the war on drugs has cost us something," Kleiman says. "If I were the czar--not just the drug czar, but the czar--marijuana would be available tomorrow...