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HEALTH CANADA gives import of 9g MDMA the green-light

B1tO'RoughJack

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From my email inbox - more good news for MDMA research into PTSD treatment
Health Canada: an official MDMA import permit for our planned Canadian study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD. After working 3½ years to satisfy Health Canada's security requirements, our pharmacist finally has permission to bring nine grams of MDMA into Canada for the study.


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in the treatment room for our new Israeli study
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As Phase 2 of our MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD research program takes off—with new studies also starting in Colorado and Israel—funding is a greater challenge than ever before. Now, the next challenge is to gather the data necessary to design the best possible Phase 3 trials intended to make MDMA-assisted psychotherapy a legally available treatment for PTSD.

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Our new Israeli study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD screens its first subject
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Retired Maj. Ricky Smith speaks with ABC News Charleston about how MDMA-assisted psychotherapy has helped him move past the PTSD he developed while fighting in Kuwait and Iraq
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I find it hilarious they are having to import it - when Canada produces a huge amount of the west's MDMA!
 
yeah that is pretty funny actually lol Canada supplies most of the US with MDMA (no sources)

but great news for treatment of PTSD. wish i could be given a trial of this considering my night terrors are only getting worse and i clearly suffer from some sort of PTSD. I don't think MDMA would help me though as i've done my fair share of street MDMA and it didn't do anything but maybe in the right setting it would have success.
 
WHat kind of dosages have you used though? I found it to be VERY therapeutic in lower doses - just above threshold.
 
Great news!

It must be because of purity issues and laboratory requirements they have to import it. I remember reading in DMT - The Spirit Molecule that Dr. Strassman had quite a lot of difficulties getting the actual permit for the DMT because of such reasons..
 
They are getting the MDMA from a/some legitimate source/s not illicit labs. Purity shouldn't be an issue
 
I hope they take all the necessary precautions with this shipment. If even one picogram of MDMA falls to the soil, all the children get pregnant and die.
 
B1tO'RoughJack said:
WHat kind of dosages have you used though? I found it to be VERY therapeutic in lower doses - just above threshold.
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well recreational doses of course and in completely inappropriate settings usually mixed with methamp, so yeah there's no doubt in my mind it has therapeutic potential in the right setting and at the right dose. Not sure what my original point was.
 
I find it hilarious they are having to import it - when Canada produces a huge amount of the west's MDMA!
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And that they spent 3½ years making the pharmacy secure enough to hold it when there's probably more MDMA on the 'street' within a square mile.
 
It took 3 years to satisfy requirements for a single pharmacist to obtain 9 grams of MDMA? really?

What a waste of time. Doing these kind of things off the books would have gotten so much more research done so much quicker.
 
Man I'd love to get my hands on some of that..
NSFW:
Racemic_MDMA_Crystal_2.jpg
 
^ My goldfish has some of that. It looks delicious from up close.
 
Seems like a bunch of bureaucratic, obstructionist non-sense to me. There is no excuse for it taking 3.5 years or needing supreme security requirements.

How idiotic. It's stories like this that remind me how much the government is trying to stop progress.

But I guess if we want real, valid research that can fight the war on drugs to be accomplished, they have to satisfy the powers that be.
 
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