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“There is now more psychedelic research taking place in the world than at any time in the last 40 years,” said Rick Doblin, executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which funds some of the work.
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This forty-year intellectual Dark Age, Doblin asserts, has been characterized by “enormous fear and misinformation and a vested interest in exaggerated stories about drugs to keep prohibition alive.”
Emerging from the Dark Age: The Revival of Psychedelic Medicine | Disinformation 2008
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But doing the research is not easy, Doblin and others say, with government funders still leery and drug companies not interested in the compounds they can't patent.
Psychedelic Research On The Rise; Trips Found To Help Anxiety David Weiner 2010
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Doblin founded the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (M.A.P.S.), an organization that conducts legal research into the healing and spiritual potentials of psychedelics and marijuana.
Emerging from the Dark Age: The Revival of Psychedelic Medicine | Disinformation 2008
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The return flight from Switzerland was a mix of hope and solemnity for Rick Doblin, the only American to attend the funeral of Dr. Albert Hofmann, the inventor of LSD who had just died at the age of 102.
Emerging from the Dark Age: The Revival of Psychedelic Medicine | Disinformation 2008
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More than anyone else in his field Doblin, who holds a public policy Doctorate from Harvard, is all-too familiar with what he refers to as the “40-year long bad trip” researchers like him have faced dealing with the fallout from the introduction of LSD and other psychedelic compounds to the Western psyche.
Emerging from the Dark Age: The Revival of Psychedelic Medicine | Disinformation 2008
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Doblin says Hofmann often said he had a happy childhood and wouldn't characterize him as twisted.
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Doblin and Hofmann were close; Doblin gave the doctor his first tab of ecstasy in the '80s when it was still legal, he says, and Hofmann loved it, saying that finally he'd found a drug he could enjoy with his wife, no fan of LSD.
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Doblin provided a copy of the letter to me; Hofmann's son, Andreas Hofmann, executor of his father's estate, authorized its publication.
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The letter led to a roughly 30-minute conversation between Doblin and Jobs, says Doblin, but no contribution to the cause.
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