SympatheticMD
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Wow, you guys have gone BANANAS with this, and I love it! I only understand a tiny bit of what the chemists are saying, but I get the overall idea. I think indigoaura mentioned crowd funding for testing, etc. Then someone said MAPS might help. MAPS was just in my town, and I tried to meet with them. They are incredibly overwhelmed and looking for funding more than additional investigation. My intuition is that whatever form of MDMA they are studying is NOT the same thing as what you guys are honing in on when you describe the makeup of "old school" MDMA....who knows exactly what MAPS is using (or if you can even find out?).
The only way I know to make the study of pharmaceuticals legal WITHOUT involving the FDA is to place it under the umbrella of a religion (or to find a way to categorize it as a supplement). People are doing that now all the time with ayahuasca - not studying it, but taking it for religious purposes. How hard is it to set up a religious organization as an umbrella to investigate what you guys are discussing instead of trying to beg politicians to do it to make street drugs safe? Crowd fund a religious/spiritual study. Although aren't these machines RIDICULOUSLY expensive?
Any lawyers out there who know about religious protection for this type of thing?
Just an idea because it is so fun to read everything you guys are writing, even though I'm pretty sure I only understand 60%. My point is, even if MAPS succeeds at making MDMA legal, I have a sneaking suspicion it won't be what people like Le Junk and I are describing from the 80s/90s, which I kind of think is related to safrole but I got lost a little bit with the impurities, because I swear one post made it sound as if some impurities were a GOOD thing???? (Hello G-Chem, I'm speaking to you). Anyway, I'm enjoying reading all of your thoughts!
Also, if you are interested, I can come up with a protocol for testing the physiologic effects of one drug vs. another so you have objective, academic results. You compare what you consider to be bad MDMA with good, and then as you take each drug you have people measure the list I would come up with.
The only way I know to make the study of pharmaceuticals legal WITHOUT involving the FDA is to place it under the umbrella of a religion (or to find a way to categorize it as a supplement). People are doing that now all the time with ayahuasca - not studying it, but taking it for religious purposes. How hard is it to set up a religious organization as an umbrella to investigate what you guys are discussing instead of trying to beg politicians to do it to make street drugs safe? Crowd fund a religious/spiritual study. Although aren't these machines RIDICULOUSLY expensive?
Any lawyers out there who know about religious protection for this type of thing?
Just an idea because it is so fun to read everything you guys are writing, even though I'm pretty sure I only understand 60%. My point is, even if MAPS succeeds at making MDMA legal, I have a sneaking suspicion it won't be what people like Le Junk and I are describing from the 80s/90s, which I kind of think is related to safrole but I got lost a little bit with the impurities, because I swear one post made it sound as if some impurities were a GOOD thing???? (Hello G-Chem, I'm speaking to you). Anyway, I'm enjoying reading all of your thoughts!
Also, if you are interested, I can come up with a protocol for testing the physiologic effects of one drug vs. another so you have objective, academic results. You compare what you consider to be bad MDMA with good, and then as you take each drug you have people measure the list I would come up with.
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