Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research
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#2This is fantastic news. MDMA and psychedelics when taken in the right setting with the right support people can be incredibly healing. Right now it's primarily focused on PTSD and other traumas, but it can be a powerful experience for improving relationships or personal growth as well.
Re: Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research
#3Very nice, on reddit people suggested they donate the interest alone like University endowments do
They could buy a bunch of masternodes because those are dividend producing assets in the cryptocurrency space
The yields should be pretty good
Re: Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research
#4Pineapple Fund is seriously awesome, really warms my heart at the great things that they're funding. :)
Re: Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research
#5This is fantastic news. MDMA and psychedelics when taken in the right setting with the right support people can be incredibly healing. Right now it's primarily focused on PTSD and other traumas, but it can be a powerful experience for improving relationships or personal growth as well.
I can anecdotally confirm this. I took MDMA under pretty normal party circumstances and honestly it was life changing. I've found it easier to be friendly, talkative, relaxed, and positive, even weeks later. I'm interested to see how long these effects last. My intrusive thoughts have been lowered and my overall outlook is more positive.
I don't have PTSD, but I do have depression, anxiety, and unofficially, I probably lie on the autism spectrum.
Can I prove anything with my sample size of one with plenty of confounding variables? Of course not. But does it make me personally believe the studies that have indicated it can be a good treatment for mental disorders are valuable and true? Absolutely.
I strongly believe that safe, controlled administration of pure, clean MDMA is something every adult should have the opportunity to legally try, especially in cases where evidence supports benefit to a psychological condition. And more research should happen. The mindset of "all drugs are heroin" has got to go.
I'm not advocating people taking pills they bought on the street, but I do support legalising of drugs that, when pure and controlled in dose like pharmaceutical medicine, don't cause a significant number of deaths or violence - such as MDMA and marijuana.
I strongly support destigmatization of drugs and more research, and the breakdown of the black and white border of "the government decides which drugs are good and which drugs are evil and everything else is for violent crackheads."
Re: Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research
#6This is fantastic news. MDMA and psychedelics when taken in the right setting with the right support people can be incredibly healing. Right now it's primarily focused on PTSD and other traumas, but it can be a powerful experience for improving relationships or personal growth as well.
I can anecdotally confirm this. I took MDMA under pretty normal party circumstances and honestly it was life changing. I've found it easier to be friendly, talkative, relaxed, and positive, even weeks later. I'm interested to see how long these effects last. My intrusive thoughts have been lowered and my overall outlook is more positive. I don't have PTSD, but I do have depression, anxiety, and unofficially, I probab…
Have plenty of friends that have overcome social anxiety they've had their entire lives with just one night of MDMA.
Re: Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research
#7Very nice, on reddit people suggested they donate the interest alone like University endowments do They could buy a bunch of masternodes because those are dividend producing assets in the cryptocurrency space The yields should be pretty good
Saving lives, changing lives, moving science forward - all better than 6-10% returns.
Kind of the whole point of charities is that the work they do is a better return than the market. Otherwise, every charity would be an endowment and they would just consume the 6-10% annual returns for their work.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can anecdotally confirm this. I took MDMA under pretty normal party circumstances and honestly it was life changing. I've found it easier to be friendly, talkative, relaxed, and positive, even weeks later. I'm interested to see how long these effects last. My intrusive thoughts have been lowered and my overall outlook is more positive. I don't have PTSD, but I do have depression, anxiety, and unofficially, I probab…
Have plenty of friends that have overcome social anxiety they've had their entire lives with just one night of MDMA.
It honestly feels like this is what has happened. I have to talk on the phone all day at my job and was not suited to it at all, and I won't pretend I suddenly enjoy it, but now I find it way easier to get thru than I did before.
I'll probably do it again. I just wish there were more studies so I could know how often is safe and optimal to take it.
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#9If MDMA were to become approved medicine in the US, I see it as an important milestone when it comes to getting rid of misguided classifications of drugs as having no medical value even though there are both research and anecdotal evidence suggesting otherwise. I am certain that a change in the US will have impacts on other countries as well.
I donated last summer because I sincerely believe this research will have a huge positive impact on many peoples lives if MDMA were to become medicine. Seeing this news I have decided to donate again.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have plenty of friends that have overcome social anxiety they've had their entire lives with just one night of MDMA.
It honestly feels like this is what has happened. I have to talk on the phone all day at my job and was not suited to it at all, and I won't pretend I suddenly enjoy it, but now I find it way easier to get thru than I did before. I'll probably do it again. I just wish there were more studies so I could know how often is safe and optimal to take it.
Read Phikal by Alexander Shulgin, plenty of interesting information in there.