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DEA Approves Study Of Psychedelic Drug MDMA In Treatment Of Seriously Ill Patients [1]

Submitted by will on Thu, 03/19/2015 - 09:38

The Drug Enforcement Administration last week gave a green light to a clinical study that will test the safety and efficacy of MDMA for use in treating anxiety in people with life-threatening illnesses. The move suggests the DEA may be questioning its long-held position that the psychedelic compound, which can be a component in street drugs like Molly or Ecstasy, has no accepted medical use.

At the height of the drug war in 1985, the agency classified MDMA in Schedule I [2] under the Controlled Substances Act. The federal government considers Schedule I drugs to be among the "most dangerous," with no known medical benefits and the potential for "severe psychological or physical dependence." That decision overruled a previous recommendation by the DEA's chief administrative law judge that the drug be placed in Schedule III [3], which would have allowed doctors to continue using it in therapy.

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[2] http://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/01/us/us-will-ban-ecstasy-a-hallucinogenic-drug.html
[3] http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/dll/mdma_scheduling_history.htm
[4] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/18/dea-mdma-study_n_6888972.html
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