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Love all the support this kind of research is getting. Crossing my fingers it reaches approved treatment status within the next decade.
by hesdeadjim 9y ago
Love all the support this kind of research is getting. Crossing my fingers it reaches approved treatment status within the next decade.
- Glench 9y agoWith FDA-approved "breakthrough" status, the treatment could be approved as early as 2021. Also, for the more business-oriented crowd here, the business model for MAPS is really interesting. There's a MAPS benefit corporation that plans to manufacture and sell regulated MDMA when MDMA-assisted therapy becomes legal. Their plan is to use all the profits from that b-corp to fund more research done by the main MAPS non-profit. I saw a talk by the director, Rick Doblin, where he said that fundraising was taking most of their time which made doing the actual research difficult. Their plan to make a sustainable benefit that directly funds the research is a super interesting idea and I hope it works out. The world needs more examples of sustainable organizations doing work that really benefits human happiness.