If you’ve taken MDMA (usually the active ingredient in ecstasy) you’ll know the euphoria and hugging and evangelical sense of “if everyone tried this, we could save the WORLD.” Well, some people take that evangelism very seriously, or at least in a medical sense. Last year VICE reported on trials that were about to start in Canada to test MDMA on people suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and while trials in other parts of the world have been undertaken or are underway, Australia has so far refused to get involved. To find out why, I spoke to Martin Williams from Psychedelic Research in Science & Medicine (prism.org.au), an Australian organisation trying to run the first such local trial, and asked him why we need to reframe the ecstatic experience in Australia.
Read more here: http://www.vice.com/en_au/read/why-wont-australia-run-medical-trials-of-mdma
