Peace Out with Psychedelics at TED2022

The session was called “Psychedelics for mass mental health”, a topic that was outlawed as recently as TED2008, but now…

• Rick Doblin of MAPS: “For our Phase 3 clinical trial, we took patients who had suffered from PTSD for 14 years on average and had recent suicide attempts. After 3 MDMA sessions and 42 hours of associated therapy, 2/3 no longer had PTSD and 21% more had clinically-less PTSD. We had no site-to-site variability across 11 American, Canadian, and Israeli trials sites.”

“PTSD trials with the standard of care (prolonged exposure and CBT) have a 50% drop-out rate because it is so painful. Our MDMA trials had a 8% drop-out rate.”

“We may be able to send MDMA to the Ukraine to help treat trauma based on our current results, pre-FDA approval.”

• Paul Stamets (wearing the mushroom hat): “Mushrooms are the interface organism between life and death.”

“When I gave my TED2008 Talk, they told me right before I went on stage: ‘Don’t you dare talk about psilocybin mushrooms.’ And now here we are. How far we have come!”

“Psilocybin studies show reduced domestic violence, depression, and anxiety. I am myco-centric. I think psilocybin makes people better.”

“We need a civil rights movement for your consciousness.”