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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

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How Sasha Schulgen Invented MDMA

People say that a guy named Sasha Schulgen invented MDMA. He was a chemist living in Berkeley who was also like a friend. And so as you said, it was used for well over a decade in California by therapists because his friends would pass it along to their friends and a lot of his friends were psychologists and psychotherapists of one sort or another. The most salient thing that happens with MDMA is a loss of fear. That creates all this scar tissue and denial and all this trauma around that. So what Jose Carlos was doing in Spain was working with women who had not responded to any other treatment,. They just couldn't get over or unable to get through this.

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