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Indigenous Arizona Church Permitted To Use Ayahuasca After DEA Settlement

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One Arizona church, known as the Church of the Eagle and the Condor (CEC), recently settled a lawsuit with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and other federal agencies. Also, this is the first time in history a church’s right to import and share its sacrament has been secured without going to trial.

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DEA Faces Lawsuit For Denying End of Life Patients the Right to Try Psychedelics Therapy

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Plant medicines and concoctions made from them have been utilized throughout the history of cultures around the world. In the last 100 years, many of the plant therapies that were embraced in history were outlawed by governments around the world and replaced by lab-made synthetic drugs we label medicine. A Push by Patients.

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DMT Therapy: Coming to a Clinic Near You?

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So according to the DEA, its abuse potential is high and it has no medical use. Also, according to the DEA, “the history of human experience probably goes back several hundred years since DMT usage is associated with a number of religious practices and rituals.” The post DMT Therapy: Coming to a Clinic Near You?

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MAPS Is 36 Years Old – Doblin Provides Precis Timeline of the Organization

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as a non-profit organization to fulfill the need to broaden psychedelic research, therapy, and develop legal options for psychedelic medicine. In MAPS’ 36th year, we’ll learn if our second Phase 3 study of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD was successful. Later that year, Doblin sued the DEA for the first time. Rick Doblin, Ph.D.,

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Final Phase of MDMA Clinical Trials Shows Drug Is 90% Effective at Treating PTSD

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A first-of-its-kind Phase 3 clinical trial has found that MDMA-assisted therapy provided meaningful relief from PTSD symptoms in nearly 90 percent of study participants. The subjects were randomly divided into two groups, each of which received three individual sessions of talk therapy. Image via. View original article.

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New Frontiers in the Law of Psychedelics

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The use of psychedelic substances to treat mental illness and physical disorders is known as “psychedelic therapy.” In a typical scenario, psychedelic substances would be used in conjunction with psychotherapy sessions to treat disorders for which other medicinal therapies have failed. Psychedelic therapy is not a fringe phenomenon.

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Q&A with Mason Marks on New Psychedelics Law and Regulation Initiative @ Harvard

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In 2017, the FDA designated MDMA a breakthrough therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder, and in 2018 the agency recognized psilocybin as a breakthrough therapy for treatment-resistant depression. In contrast, it is unclear to what extent people most in need of psychedelic therapies will benefit. So far, that’s questionable.

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