Could MDMA Be Medicine? with Rachel Nuwer
Factually! with Adam Conover
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The Moral Panic of MDMA
A lot of what you're describing here sounds a little bit similar to what happened with LSD, which I'm a little bit familiar with from Michael Paulins book. Um, and he talks about how they got so much attention that the government ends up cracking down on them because they basically induced a moral panic by spreading it too fast. But there are some critical differences in these stories. So the therapists in the MDMA case had seen what happened in LSD's case. And then there were people who were like, Oh, I can make a lot of money on this. Yeah.
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