#133 - Meet The Most Important Man Alive In The History of MDMA

Check out Scispace (JNGIANT20: 20% off the monthly plan or JNGIANT40: 40% off the annual plan): https://scispace.com/?via=jun1giantshoulderGet Muse EEG Headband (15% off): https://choosemuse.com/giantsshoulderWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutRick Doblin is the founder of MAPS and the man who spent 50 years dragging the world's most demonized drug into the doctor's office. He taxed legal ecstasy dealers to fund the first MDMA toxicity studies, sued the DEA with the profits, and got a Harvard PhD in public policy to beat the system from inside — then ran the only completed Phase 3 trials in history showing that two-thirds of severe PTSD patients no longer had the diagnosis after MDMA-assisted therapy.Expect to learn how he taxed ecstasy dealers to sue the DEA, why MDMA was a couples-therapy drug before it was a party drug, the real reason Nixon criminalized psychedelics in 1970, why 88% of severe PTSD patients responded to MDMA therapy while half dropped out of standard VA treatment, why you can't get addicted to MDMA the way you can to cocaine, why you'll do more jail time for MDMA than for the same weight of cocaine, his plan for "net zero trauma by 2070," and much more…Timestamps0:00:00 Trailer0:03:03 Winning the Generational Lottery After the Holocaust0:05:27 Dropping Out of College to Study LSD0:08:15 The Forgotten Golden Era of Psychedelic Research0:09:33 When the CIA Weaponized LSD for Mind Control0:13:10 Half a Pound of Mescaline and Ten Years to Recover0:15:09 The Day a Stranger Said "There's This Drug Called Adam"0:15:56 MDMA Was a Therapy Drug Before It Was Ecstasy0:18:39 Sasha Shulgin, the Man Who Invented 200 Psychedelics0:24:12 How Dealers Tweaked Molecules to Stay Legal0:27:21 Why Nixon Really Criminalized the Hippies0:30:04 Going to War With the DEA — and Winning0:33:56 Founding MAPS and $200 Million Later0:39:09 Taxing the Ecstasy Dealers to Fund the Lawsuit0:41:33 The First MDMA Safety Study, Run on a Beach0:42:43 The 1992 Moment That Reopened Psychedelic Science0:44:31 The First PTSD Study, Shut Down for Politics0:48:08 Cannabis Is Palliative, Psychedelics Are Curative0:50:08 The Veteran Suicide Epidemic Nobody Will Fund0:53:33 Why MAPS Bet Everything on MDMA0:58:35 The Effect Sizes That Should Have Changed Everything1:01:01 Why Half of Veterans Quit Standard PTSD Therapy1:02:13 Why the Data Alone Was Never Going to Win1:04:54 The Absurd Reason the FDA Cited: "Euphoria"1:06:34 Why You Can't Get Hooked on MDMA1:07:26 More Jail for MDMA Than for Cocaine1:08:36 Net Zero Trauma by 20701:10:47 MDMA for Couples, and Bringing It to the World...... Email for sponsorship enquiries:[email protected] LinksRick Doblin — MAPS: https://maps.org/people/rick-doblin/Rick Doblin on X: https://x.com/RickDoblinMAPS: https://maps.org