BREAKING NEWS: Canada amends drug laws to allow restricted access to MDMA-Assisted Therapy

On January 5, 2022, Health Canada made a historic amendment to its drug laws to allow restricted drugs, such as MDMA and Psilocybin, to be accessible, under special conditions, through the Special Access Program.
Rick Doblin’s best interview ever

Since MDMA Therapy is essentially healing-with-love, to end 2021 on a total love note, I would like to share with you a 6-minute interview Rick did with Sara Rose Siskind that will likely make your heart grow.
A holiday gift to you is a brief article I just published on Medium

The question I asked was, “What happens when hippies are armed with a legal pharma company?” The answers I found made my heart grow.
MDMA-Assisted Therapy on NBC TODAY Show

In this blog, I would like to share with you a brief newscast just aired on NBC TODAY Show
Breaking News: MAPS therapists-in-training might be able to experience an MDMA dosing session first-hand

After two years of negotiations, MAPS won an appeal with the FDA to pave the way for future therapists-in-training to experience an MDMA dosing session first-hand.
“MDMA Therapy is rocking the world of psychotherapy”

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies just published their largest-to-date study on the effectiveness and safety of MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD*, and the results are, well, somewhat earth shattering.
Thank you MAPS for 35 years of hard work!

Imagine 35 years ago. Just as the FDA is about to place the love drug MDMA on Schedule 1 (Totally bad!!! Totally illegal!!!), Rick Doblin, whose heart grew a few sizes too big (I imagine partially because of MDMA), decides that the way to bring MDMA to therapy is not through underground practices but through legal means.
MDMA Therapy Training Available Now

This is the news many people have been waiting for: MAPS Public Benefit Corporation has now opened the applications for MDMA-Assisted Therapy training outside the research context!
Evidence is mounting that Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy helps depression

Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research just published a well designed study showing that Psilocybin is effective in treating depression.
MDMA-Assisted Therapy Good News

In this blog we share some great research and legislative news, release the report from our November conference, introduce Canadian Psychedelic Association, share an invite to an international research survey, and of course invite you to listen to the interview with Gül Dölen who talks about her brand new research that explains how MDMA-Assisted Therapy might heal broken relationships.