Season 12 · Episode 41
Setting the Record Straight on MDMA, MAPS + the FDA
WORD UP with Dani Katz · dani katz
October 9, 202455m 2s
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Show Notes
Psychedelic scholar, Robert Forte, returned to the podcast to FINALLY set the record straight on MDMA, MAPS and the FDA’s recent (and salient) decision to not approve Rick Doblin’s MDMA trauma therapy proposal, which the fake alt media community would have us believing is some sort of travesty. Oy.
Part 2:
Find Robert:
Twitter: @divinecomedy56
https://www.alteredstatesofamerica.net/
https://alteredstatesofamerica.substack.com/
Show notes:
- Returning to the USA from Greece
- Setting the record straight: MDMA, MAPS & the FDA
- RFK & drug policy advisory
- Upholding “The Narrative”: Joe Rogan, Aubrey Marcus, Jordan Peterson
- Psychedelic field researchers
- Origins of Forte’s MDMA journey
- US Neo-Conservatism & Totalitarianism
- Timothy Leary and Frank Baron
- Conference of 1981 and Esalen Institute
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Doblin- Secret snitch to Drug Guru and media darling
- “Conspiracy theorist” label vs real drug-related conspiracies
- Amanda Fielding, Rebel Wisdom, Conspirituality
- Books: CIA, drug trade conspiracies
- WWII: OSS members to Harvard professors/CIA
- Timothy Leary: 1948 CIA funded MKUltra
- Operation Paperclip- Nazi’s into USA
- American Spirit diluted with drug psyops
- 40’s-50’s psychedelic research
- Leary- flawed character with anti-authoritarian spirit
- 1985- Forte at U of Chicago- religion study
- Charles Schuster & MDMA brain damage
- Schedule 1 drug & most popular drug in the world
- Ecstasy & Rave movement- drug deployment psychological warfare
- Salon article: art students, Mossad spies, DEA & drug rings
- Rick Doblin- questionable credentials
- Heseg Foundation- “greatest moment of his life”
- Disclaimer- re Israel
- ‘Orphan drug’- MDMA has no owner/no $ for Pharma
- Alex Shulgin- Bohemian Grove
- Huxley- Soma for the masses
- 1984- MAPS (scam) launched- non-profit to $15k
- Leonard Pickard- DIA, LSD, & MDMA
- Where is MAPS now?
- 1970=Controlled Substance Act
- $16 million grant at Harvard for psychedelic research
- Bring MDMA back to consciousness exploration
- Bill Maher and story-telling
- Altered States of America and psychedelic movements