| Rick Doblin, Ph.D.
Rick is the founder (in 1986) and president of MAPS. His dissertation (Public Policy, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government) was on "The
Regulation of the Medical Use of Psychedelics and Marijuana," and his master's thesis
(Harvard) focused on the attitudes and experiences of oncologists
concerning the medical use of marijuana. His undergraduate thesis (New College of Florida) was a twenty-five year follow-up to the classic Good Friday Experiment, which evaluated the potential of psychedelic drugs to catalyze religious experiences. He has also conducted a thirty-four year follow-up study to Tim Leary's Concord Prison experiment.
Doblin has
also studied with Stan Grof, M.D., and was in the first group to become
certified as holotropic breathwork practitioners. His professional
goal is to help develop legal contexts for the beneficial uses of
psychedelics and marijuana, primarily as prescription medicines but
also for personal growth for otherwise "healthy" people, and to also
become a legally licensed psychedelic therapist. He currently resides
in Boston with his wife and three young children. |