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Ear to the Ground
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.
Interview
How the Psychedelic Movement Disregards Indigenous Knowledge
Jul 11, 2023 Five questions for Indigenous protester Kuthoomi Castro.
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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.
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The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Military
Feb 17, 2023 The video and full transcript from Truthdig's recent livestream event featuring a discussion between Psymposia co-founder, Brian Normand, and Dig curator, Russell Hausfeld.
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.
Health & Wellness
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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Psychedelics, Alone, Will Not Save Us From Dystopia
Dec 2, 2022 Dispelling the myth that psychedelics will usher in a progressive utopia without accompanying political activity aimed at systemic socioeconomic change.
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Has the military been secretly conducting its own MDMA studies?
Nov 30, 2022 In previously unreported statements made at the 2017 International Drug Policy Reform Conference, Rick Doblin, executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), discussed rumors of secret Pentagon studies with MDMA, as well as the reasons for hesitancy on the part of some government agencies to fund MAPS’ research.
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