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#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics

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The Risk Benefit Ratio, Not Pure Safety

I think there's very minimal physiological risks from the classic psychedelics, virtually none, or for even MDMA under safe conditions. Psychological risks are harder to address, but we can do that through the sense of safety and support. But I think there's a level of risk there that we shouldn't overlook. So, it's both the science having the rigor of understanding how to do it safely and the culture catching up to the fact that this is both safe and very useful.

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