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Building Better Killing Machines — With Ecstasy!
Mar 21, 2024 Rick Doblin, the pioneer of MDMA therapy, advocates for dosing soldiers upon enlistment.
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Corporadelic: MAPS For-Profit Arm Raises $100 Million
Jan 11, 2024 The pioneering psychedelics advocacy group has traded its “public benefit model” for one closer to traditional pharma.
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Part II: Who’s Researching the Researchers?
Mar 23, 2023 This is the concluding feature story in the multi-part Dig series, “The Ecstasy of Agony,” investigating the politics of psychedelic research and its commercialization, with a focus on the historic and present-day links between psychedelia and the military. The first feature explored how veterans were deployed by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies' (MAPS) as public relations mascots to gain public sympathy for psychedelic pharmaceutical agendas. This piece delves deeper into the lived experiences of veterans recruited by MAPS and explores allegations of manipulation tactics on the part of MAPS and its researchers — allegations that raise serious questions about MAPS' methods and relationships with veterans over the last decade.
Politics
Corporadelia is Knocking at Psychedelia’s Door
Feb 8, 2023 A conversation with psychedelic activist David Nickles about “Non-Prohibitionist Critique” and the dangers of right-wing appropriation of experimental drug treatments.
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Which Veterans Affairs Locations Are Conducting Psychedelic Clinical Trials?
Jan 24, 2023 For the the first time in nearly half a century, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs has opened a number of its locations for clinical trials of psychedelic drugs.
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Drop Acid…and Psychedelic Cluster Bombs?
Dec 28, 2022 A photo essay of the U.S. military’s weaponization of hallucinogens, culminating in the stockpiling of super-psychedelic “BZ” cluster bombs.
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Power Tripping: The Psychedelic Industry Has a Consent Problem
Dec 27, 2022 There is evidence of a serious lack of understanding of consent in the psychedelics industry.
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The Importance of “Breakthrough” Designation in Drug Policy
Dec 15, 2022 What’s good for Pharma isn’t always good for average drug users.
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Ready, Set, Reset
Dec 7, 2022 The notion of psychedelic treatment as a “reset” for the brain has become exceedingly popular, but the expectations instilled by this type of language can be harmful to patients.
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The Few, the Proud…the Microdosed?
Dec 6, 2022 A Marine lieutenant colonel uses bad science to advocate for daily LSD supplements for active-duty troops.
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