Newsletter: June 8, 2006
MAPS Members and Friends, As the MAPS headquarters at Love Creek gets the ball rolling with our new office in California, we’re pleased to announce that we have made some major steps forward with …
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Swiss Study: SwissMedic Approves MDMA/PTSD Study
Switzerland’s FDA equivalent, SwissMedic, has now fully approved Dr. Peter Oehen’s MAPS-sponsored MDMA/PTSD study. The protocol design had already been approved, and earlier this week we received …
Science: The Drug Wars Latest Victim
Science: The Drug Wars Latest Victim By Salim Muwakkil InTheseTimes.com May 19, 2006 The war on drugs is an attack on rationality. Reason lost yet another skirmish recently when the Food and Drug Administration …
AlterNet – “The Electric Kool-Aid Medicine Test”
Click here to read “The Electric Kool-Aid Medicine Test,” an interview by Terrance McNally published by AlterNet in which psychedelic researcher Dr. Charles Grob explains how psychedelic drugs …
The Advertiser: MDMA-Assisted Therapy
Australian Democrats MP Sandra Kanck made a controversial and groundbreaking speech before the Australian Parliament last week advocating harm-reduction drug education and the therapeutic use of MDMA. …
A Good Death
A good death After a 40-year virtual ban on research involving psychedelic drugs, scientists look anew at their potential in treating pain and anxiety View PDF The Boston Globe May 15, 2006 By Scott Allen, …
Newsletter: May 11, 2006
MAPS Members and Friends, Here’s the latest news from MAPS: 1. Final Legal Briefs Submitted for Prof. Craker’s DEA Lawsuit for MAPS-supported Medical Marijuana Production Facility2. Chemic …
New York Times: Mexico Passes Law Making Possession of Some Drugs Legal
The New York Times reports Mexico Passes Law Making Possession of Some Drugs Legal. Mexican lawmakers defied US pressure in passing a bill that makes it legal to possess small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, …
Dissembling on Medical Pot
Chicago Tribune April 23, 2006 http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/health/chi-0604230352apr23,1,7515834.story Dissembling on medical pot Editorial The federal government has a long and dismal record …
The Politics of Pot
New York Times April 22, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/opinion/22sat3.html?pagewanted=print The Politics of Pot Editorial The Bush administration’s habit of politicizing its scientific agencies …
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The University of Pennsylvania published “Psychedelic Psychotherapy: The Ethics of Medicine for the Soul.”
Psychedelic Healing
Psychedelic Healing An Interview with Torsten Passie By Sue Blackmore Published in the New Scientist From the Talking Point Column On Wednesday, 15 April 2006 p. 60. http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/journalism/Passie%202006.htm …