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Beyond Medicalization: Psychedelic Therapy and the Promise of Community-Based Healing

Mad in America

Colorado’s approach importantly emphasizes natural medicines in their fungal and plant forms rather than synthetic compounds and allows for multiple pathways for legal use. This concentration of ownership contradicts the ethos of community access and shared knowledge that has characterized historical psychedelic use.

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Set, Setting, Forgetting: Silence on Abuse in Psychedelic Therapy Histories

Mad in America

The new drug application for MDMA-AT submitted by MAPS would have allowed MDMA legal use solely within MAPS’ proprietary psychotherapy protocol and only for individuals with a PTSD diagnosis. Psychedelic therapy advocates consistently dismiss these concerns as exaggerated or isolated incidents that are inevitable in any therapy.