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Rick Doblin, Ph.D. MAPS Executive Director[br]Paving the Way From Banned Drug to Legal Medicine

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Psychedelics have been used by tens of millions, hundreds of millions of people

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so we know the risks of psychedelics.

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We have hundreds of millions of dollars already spent by the governments on the risks

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and we don't have to do that research again. It's in the public domain.

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For roughly $10 million focused very narrowly on an ever expanding series of studies

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looking at safety of, and efficacy of, psychedelics in specific patient populations,

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it's a reasonable goal. $10 million is not out of reach, because first of it's like $10 million over 10 years.

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It's not like you need to write a check all at once. So that the goal for a non-profit organisation

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through donations rather than investments to raise enough money to do the research, it's, it's possible.

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Interview courtesy of "From Neurons to Nirvana: The Great Medicines" by Oliver Hockenhull. Film to be released later in 2012.

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The Multidisciplinary Association For Psychedelic Studies[br]maps.org