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title: "Great news! "Funding MAPS and the MDMA studies has meant relentless…"
date: 2018-11-01
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# Great news! "Funding MAPS and the MDMA studies has meant relentless…

*November 1, 2018 · Facebook*

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\"Funding MAPS and the MDMA studies has meant relentless fundraising, more than \$70 million over the years from by a wide array of wealthy backers.\
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"Rick has this beautiful vision of healing the cultural divide of the sixties; having veterans and counterculture icons coming together,'" says David Bronner, CEO --- Cosmic Engagement Officer ---of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, the organic brand known for its quirky labels. Bronner has given \$3.1 million to MAPS since 2005 and currently chairs its board of directors.\
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Earlier this year Rebekah Mercer, the billionaire Republican and co-owner of Breitbart, pledged \$1 million to fund the PTSD trials.\
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"America's veterans deserve the very best care," Mercer said in a statement announcing the grant.\
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If prescription MDMA is ever approved, revenue would flow to a pharmaceutical company entirely owned by MAPS. According to the company's charter, profits would fund research into new uses for MDMA and other psychedelics.\
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The small studies published by MAPS and Heffter are dwarfed by research conducted roughly a half-century ago. Between 1950 and the mid-1960s more than 1,000 papers were published documenting 40,000 patients receiving LSD and other psychedelics for conditions like depression and addiction.\"\
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