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Rachel Nuwer's "I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World"

LA Review of Books

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The Politics of Scheduled Drugs

Scheduling and classifying drugs officially is a political process. There are no checks and balances for prioritizing the science when it comes to MDMA, he says. NIH will not fund generally studies involving schedule one drugs like psilocybin study of Johns Hopkins. So politicization affects all aspects of drug research.

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