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There has to be a profit motive to get something to market. There have been 18 years of small studies on Ketamine for TRD with little progress.
by atomical 8y ago
There has to be a profit motive to get something to market. There have been 18 years of small studies on Ketamine for TRD with little progress.
- ada1981 8y agoUnless you look at the other psychedelic with breakthrough status - MDMA, which Rick Doblin has brought through clinical trials as a non-profit. Doblin has no profit motive and is stoked with his $70k a year salary. His goal is changing culture, that is his motive.
- dannyw 8y agoMAPS’ MDMA is also commercialised by a for profit company. As far as I know, the company is independent and not the Mozilla approach (Mozilla Foundstion owns Mozilla corporation).
- ada1981 8y agoA for profit company that is wholly owned by the MAPS non-profit. I know Rick Doblin and have donated a good amount of money to MAPS. There is no comparison between maps and compass.
- perfmode 8y agoBelieve it or not, some people just want to make the world a better place. Profit motive _can_ help to motivate people if there is a lack of motivation. However, it is not true that there _must_ be profit motive. Right now, there is no lack of motivation to get this stuff out there. It is the questionable government prohibition that is holding things back.
- basseq 8y agoThe experts/critics seem to be questioning that motivation. They're implying that profit-motive (regardless of any other motive) is inherently bad.
- perfmode 8y agoCan you cite an instance of this?
- adfm 8y agoThe "crunchy-granola" dog whistle in another thread is telling. Psychedelics and FOSS histories are intertwined. If that doesn't register, you're in for a bummer of a trip. The article seemed to do a pretty good job of exposing C.O.M.P.A.S.S./Compass for the exploitive carpetbaggers they appear to be.