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Dear MAPS Supporters and Friends,
We are witnessing a change in our culture as result of the work that MAPS does and our members support. This week, military.com, an online news media outlet wrote an enthusiastic article about our MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder research. Military.com has ten million members who potentially have read the article! On February 11, the editorial board at New Scientist posed a mental exercise to their readers: Which is safer to give to a perfect stranger, MDMA or Peanuts? You should give them ecstasy, of course. A much larger percentage of people suffer a fatal acute reaction to peanuts than to MDMA. The editorialist went onto call for a rational debate about the true damage caused by illegal drugs - which pales into insignificance compared with the havoc wreaked by legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco. Until then, we have no chance of developing a rational drug policy.
Meanwhile, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is hampering MAPS abilities to do scientific research with marijuana. One ardent MAPS supporter has taken the initiative to campaign on our behalf. We hope that you will help us by going to http://www.scienceoverpolitics.org and send a message to the Obama administration and your two senators to end the anti-science ideology promoted by DEA.
Here’s a sample of what is happening this month at MAPS:
Fundraising News
1. MAPS Receives 5-year, $150,000 a Year Pledge from Ashawna Hailey, Totaling $750,000!
2. MAPS Raises Over $170,000 in the Past Month
Marijuana News
3. Prof. Craker’s Legal Team Prepares for March 11 Deadline In DEA Medical Marijuana Production Lawsuit
4. Participate in MAPS’ Marijuana Legal Struggle at scienceoverpolitics.org
5. WAMM Delegates Head to Israel to Assist Marijuana Production Facility
6. MAPS Helps the Production of Wammovie
Participate
7. MAPS Conference April 16-18, 2010. Save the Date!
8. Seeking Donation of Frequent Flyer Miles and Large Vacation House or Small Retreat Center for MAPS International MDMA/PTSD Therapist Training Seminar
9. Donate to MAPS this Month and Print by Artist Michael Garfield!
10. Participants Needed for a Research Study on Psychedelic Mushrooms (Psilocybin) and Spirituality
11. Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics NYC Sept 25-27
12. Diabasis Seeks Networking for Spiritual Emergencies
New Media and Information
13. Military Families Learn About MDMA/PTSD Therapy from Military.com Article
14. MAPS Releases New Version of Psychedelic Emergency Video
15. New MAPS Podcast with David Jay Brown Available
16. New Books from MAPS: Ayahuasca Religions and LSD: My Problem Child, 4th English Edition
17. Inner Traditions Releases LSD: Doorway to the Numinous by Stan Grof, a New Edition of Realms of the Human Unconscious
Research News
18. MAPS Clinical Research Team Visits Swiss LSD and Swiss MDMA Sites
19. Ibogaine Outcome Study Now Fully Funded—Empowered to Enroll Remaining Subjects
20. MAPS’ US MDMA/PTSD Research Team Prepares Paper for Publication
Other
21. MAPS New Mailing Address—We Are Moving!
1.MAPS Receives 5-year, $150,000 a Year Pledge from Ashawna Hailey, Totaling $750,000!
Ashawna Hailey, a member of MAPS’ Board of Directors, has made a 5-year, $150,000 a year pledge, for a total of $750,000, and has already donated the initial $150,000 in February 2009. This long-term commitment from Ashawna, coming during these very challenging financial times, is a tremendous vote of confidence in our MDMA/PTSD drug development program. Ashawna’s pledge, just like MDMA itself, has transformed into hope and excitement our fear and uncertainty about our ability to expand our research at this time of global contraction. Words fail to express our gratitude to Ashawna.
2. MAPS Raises Over $170,000 in the Past Month
During this time of terrible financial havoc, MAPS has been incredibly fortunate to receive substantial contributions from several individuals. We wish to thank Peter Lewis for an unrestricted grant of $35,000. Kevin Herbert generously donated $9,000 restricted to our Swiss LSD/end-of-life anxiety study and Robert Barnhart provided us with $10,000 for MAPS’ second edition of Albert Hofmann’s LSD: My Problem Child (see item below).
At the ibogaine conference in Boston, Doug Greene, co-founder of Cures Not Wars and long-time drug policy reformer, wrote a check for $1000 for our Ibogaine research Doug’s gift started the ball rolling for other donations for the ibogaine project. Robert Barnhart provided us with a matching grant of $15,000 for the ibogaine study, which amazingly was matched in full two days later by an anonymous donor!
The anonymous donor also pledged $85,000 for our planned Jordanian MDMA/PTSD study. We also received a $4,000 donation for our U.S. MDMA/PTSD study from another anonymous patron.
Thank you to all of the above people. We also wish to acknowledge the hundreds of supporters who have given us other monetary gifts that sustain our ongoing research projects and operating expenses. MAPS is still a membership-based organization with 1700+ members and growing. It is the generosity of all of us combined that will lead to a world where psychedelic psychotherapy and medical marijuana are available legally by prescription.
3. Prof. Craker’s Legal Team Prepares for March 11 Deadline In DEA Medical Marijuana Production Lawsuit
MAPS’ and Professor Lyle Craker’s legal team are working hard to persuade DEA to issue Prof. Craker a license to grow marijuana for federally-approved, MAPS -funded research. It feels like we’re closer than we’ve been at any time in the last several decades.
On January 14, 2009, after doing nothing for almost two years and with just six days left in office, Bush holdovers at the DEA published in the Federal Register a final ruling denying Prof. Craker a license to grow marijuana. DEA’s final ruling rejected Administrative Law Judge Ellen Bittner’s February 12, 2007, recommendation that it would be in the public interest for DEA to license Prof. Craker.
On January 30, 2009 our legal team filed a motion to reconsider based on new evidence included in DEA’s final ruling. On February 6, 2009, 16 members of the United States Congress sent a letter to new Attorney General Eric Holder urging him to have DEA amend or withdraw the Final Order in this matter to permit President Obama’s new Deputy Attorney General and DEA appointees to review Prof. Craker’s merits, once they are in office. On February 9, 2009, DEA Deputy Administrator Michelle Leonhart, agreed to extend to March 11, 2009, the deadline for a response from our legal team.
The legal team is preparing a supplemental filing to our motion to reconsider for the March 11 deadline. After the legal filing on March 11, DEA has 15 days to reply. At the present moment, the effective date for the final ruling to become effective is April 1, but this may be extended if DEA grants our motion to reconsider and schedules additional hearings or sets a timetable for additional written submissions. If not extended, DEA will be sued in the DC Circuit Federal Court of Appeals.
In related news, Attorney General Eric Holder has reprimanded DEA for conducting raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in states where medical marijuana is legal. Medical Marijuana supporters can now celebrate the end of an era when federal raids by DEA agents were arresting citizens who were abiding by state laws. There is definitely a sea change in politics and culture as seen in this February 27th front-page article of the San Francisco Chronicle. Not only does the article discuss the end of the raids, it also discusses Dr. Craker’s legal case.
4. Participate in MAPS’ Marijuana Legal Struggle at scienceoverpolitics.org
An ambitious MAPS supporter has created a website to help generate support for DEA licensing of Dr. Lyle Craker’s MAPS-sponsored medical marijuana production facility. Please visit http://www.scienceoverpolitics.org, where you can send a personal text message about this issue to President Obama, and your two US senators. Please share the website with your contacts who are concerned about science prevailing over anti-drug ideology.
5. WAMM Delegates Head to Israel to Assist Marijuana Production Facility
Today Val Corral and Mimi Peleg of Wo/Mens Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM) went to Israel, funded by MAPS, to consult with Yohai Golan about distribution and research at a medical marijuana production facility that Golan founded and MAPS helped to fund. MAPS President Rick Doblin PhD will be joining Val and Mimi in Israel later this week.
The Israeli Ministry of Health has licensed Golan to produce enough marijuana to distribute to 500 Ministry-approved patients for several years, so long as the facility does not charge for the marijuana. MAPS donated $15,000 as a matching grant to Golan’s facility last year. Golan has since made alliances with investors who have put up hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund the production facility for the next several years. The Ministry of Health is considering proposals to allow the sale of marijuana to Ministry-approved patients, in order to create a sustainable model.
Continued here.
Dear MAPS Supporters and Friends,
We are witnessing a change in our culture as result of the work that MAPS does and our members support. This week, military.com, an online news media outlet wrote an enthusiastic article about our MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder research. Military.com has ten million members who potentially have read the article! On February 11, the editorial board at New Scientist posed a mental exercise to their readers: Which is safer to give to a perfect stranger, MDMA or Peanuts? You should give them ecstasy, of course. A much larger percentage of people suffer a fatal acute reaction to peanuts than to MDMA. The editorialist went onto call for a rational debate about the true damage caused by illegal drugs - which pales into insignificance compared with the havoc wreaked by legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco. Until then, we have no chance of developing a rational drug policy.
Meanwhile, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is hampering MAPS abilities to do scientific research with marijuana. One ardent MAPS supporter has taken the initiative to campaign on our behalf. We hope that you will help us by going to http://www.scienceoverpolitics.org and send a message to the Obama administration and your two senators to end the anti-science ideology promoted by DEA.
Here’s a sample of what is happening this month at MAPS:
Fundraising News
1. MAPS Receives 5-year, $150,000 a Year Pledge from Ashawna Hailey, Totaling $750,000!
2. MAPS Raises Over $170,000 in the Past Month
Marijuana News
3. Prof. Craker’s Legal Team Prepares for March 11 Deadline In DEA Medical Marijuana Production Lawsuit
4. Participate in MAPS’ Marijuana Legal Struggle at scienceoverpolitics.org
5. WAMM Delegates Head to Israel to Assist Marijuana Production Facility
6. MAPS Helps the Production of Wammovie
Participate
7. MAPS Conference April 16-18, 2010. Save the Date!
8. Seeking Donation of Frequent Flyer Miles and Large Vacation House or Small Retreat Center for MAPS International MDMA/PTSD Therapist Training Seminar
9. Donate to MAPS this Month and Print by Artist Michael Garfield!
10. Participants Needed for a Research Study on Psychedelic Mushrooms (Psilocybin) and Spirituality
11. Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics NYC Sept 25-27
12. Diabasis Seeks Networking for Spiritual Emergencies
New Media and Information
13. Military Families Learn About MDMA/PTSD Therapy from Military.com Article
14. MAPS Releases New Version of Psychedelic Emergency Video
15. New MAPS Podcast with David Jay Brown Available
16. New Books from MAPS: Ayahuasca Religions and LSD: My Problem Child, 4th English Edition
17. Inner Traditions Releases LSD: Doorway to the Numinous by Stan Grof, a New Edition of Realms of the Human Unconscious
Research News
18. MAPS Clinical Research Team Visits Swiss LSD and Swiss MDMA Sites
19. Ibogaine Outcome Study Now Fully Funded—Empowered to Enroll Remaining Subjects
20. MAPS’ US MDMA/PTSD Research Team Prepares Paper for Publication
Other
21. MAPS New Mailing Address—We Are Moving!
1.MAPS Receives 5-year, $150,000 a Year Pledge from Ashawna Hailey, Totaling $750,000!
Ashawna Hailey, a member of MAPS’ Board of Directors, has made a 5-year, $150,000 a year pledge, for a total of $750,000, and has already donated the initial $150,000 in February 2009. This long-term commitment from Ashawna, coming during these very challenging financial times, is a tremendous vote of confidence in our MDMA/PTSD drug development program. Ashawna’s pledge, just like MDMA itself, has transformed into hope and excitement our fear and uncertainty about our ability to expand our research at this time of global contraction. Words fail to express our gratitude to Ashawna.
2. MAPS Raises Over $170,000 in the Past Month
During this time of terrible financial havoc, MAPS has been incredibly fortunate to receive substantial contributions from several individuals. We wish to thank Peter Lewis for an unrestricted grant of $35,000. Kevin Herbert generously donated $9,000 restricted to our Swiss LSD/end-of-life anxiety study and Robert Barnhart provided us with $10,000 for MAPS’ second edition of Albert Hofmann’s LSD: My Problem Child (see item below).
At the ibogaine conference in Boston, Doug Greene, co-founder of Cures Not Wars and long-time drug policy reformer, wrote a check for $1000 for our Ibogaine research Doug’s gift started the ball rolling for other donations for the ibogaine project. Robert Barnhart provided us with a matching grant of $15,000 for the ibogaine study, which amazingly was matched in full two days later by an anonymous donor!
The anonymous donor also pledged $85,000 for our planned Jordanian MDMA/PTSD study. We also received a $4,000 donation for our U.S. MDMA/PTSD study from another anonymous patron.
Thank you to all of the above people. We also wish to acknowledge the hundreds of supporters who have given us other monetary gifts that sustain our ongoing research projects and operating expenses. MAPS is still a membership-based organization with 1700+ members and growing. It is the generosity of all of us combined that will lead to a world where psychedelic psychotherapy and medical marijuana are available legally by prescription.
3. Prof. Craker’s Legal Team Prepares for March 11 Deadline In DEA Medical Marijuana Production Lawsuit
MAPS’ and Professor Lyle Craker’s legal team are working hard to persuade DEA to issue Prof. Craker a license to grow marijuana for federally-approved, MAPS -funded research. It feels like we’re closer than we’ve been at any time in the last several decades.
On January 14, 2009, after doing nothing for almost two years and with just six days left in office, Bush holdovers at the DEA published in the Federal Register a final ruling denying Prof. Craker a license to grow marijuana. DEA’s final ruling rejected Administrative Law Judge Ellen Bittner’s February 12, 2007, recommendation that it would be in the public interest for DEA to license Prof. Craker.
On January 30, 2009 our legal team filed a motion to reconsider based on new evidence included in DEA’s final ruling. On February 6, 2009, 16 members of the United States Congress sent a letter to new Attorney General Eric Holder urging him to have DEA amend or withdraw the Final Order in this matter to permit President Obama’s new Deputy Attorney General and DEA appointees to review Prof. Craker’s merits, once they are in office. On February 9, 2009, DEA Deputy Administrator Michelle Leonhart, agreed to extend to March 11, 2009, the deadline for a response from our legal team.
The legal team is preparing a supplemental filing to our motion to reconsider for the March 11 deadline. After the legal filing on March 11, DEA has 15 days to reply. At the present moment, the effective date for the final ruling to become effective is April 1, but this may be extended if DEA grants our motion to reconsider and schedules additional hearings or sets a timetable for additional written submissions. If not extended, DEA will be sued in the DC Circuit Federal Court of Appeals.
In related news, Attorney General Eric Holder has reprimanded DEA for conducting raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in states where medical marijuana is legal. Medical Marijuana supporters can now celebrate the end of an era when federal raids by DEA agents were arresting citizens who were abiding by state laws. There is definitely a sea change in politics and culture as seen in this February 27th front-page article of the San Francisco Chronicle. Not only does the article discuss the end of the raids, it also discusses Dr. Craker’s legal case.
4. Participate in MAPS’ Marijuana Legal Struggle at scienceoverpolitics.org
An ambitious MAPS supporter has created a website to help generate support for DEA licensing of Dr. Lyle Craker’s MAPS-sponsored medical marijuana production facility. Please visit http://www.scienceoverpolitics.org, where you can send a personal text message about this issue to President Obama, and your two US senators. Please share the website with your contacts who are concerned about science prevailing over anti-drug ideology.
5. WAMM Delegates Head to Israel to Assist Marijuana Production Facility
Today Val Corral and Mimi Peleg of Wo/Mens Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM) went to Israel, funded by MAPS, to consult with Yohai Golan about distribution and research at a medical marijuana production facility that Golan founded and MAPS helped to fund. MAPS President Rick Doblin PhD will be joining Val and Mimi in Israel later this week.
The Israeli Ministry of Health has licensed Golan to produce enough marijuana to distribute to 500 Ministry-approved patients for several years, so long as the facility does not charge for the marijuana. MAPS donated $15,000 as a matching grant to Golan’s facility last year. Golan has since made alliances with investors who have put up hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund the production facility for the next several years. The Ministry of Health is considering proposals to allow the sale of marijuana to Ministry-approved patients, in order to create a sustainable model.
Continued here.
