Rick Doblin
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And they have something that I've never seen before is that they have just enormous numbers of graves, terrible, they've lost about 250,000 people. But the graves all have flags for Ukraine, but they have the pictures of the person that's dead, the person that's buried there. And I've never seen that anywhere else.
It has even more of an emotional impact because you're actually not just thinking all these people are dead, but you're seeing their pictures. And most of them are younger and tragically interrupted their lives, a fair number of women. And they put them in the center of the cities. They're having to build new grave sites all over. And this was next to a really large old historic cemetery. Yeah.
It has even more of an emotional impact because you're actually not just thinking all these people are dead, but you're seeing their pictures. And most of them are younger and tragically interrupted their lives, a fair number of women. And they put them in the center of the cities. They're having to build new grave sites all over. And this was next to a really large old historic cemetery. Yeah.
It has even more of an emotional impact because you're actually not just thinking all these people are dead, but you're seeing their pictures. And most of them are younger and tragically interrupted their lives, a fair number of women. And they put them in the center of the cities. They're having to build new grave sites all over. And this was next to a really large old historic cemetery. Yeah.
And so it feels to me like what I'm trying to do is to really go to where people, I think, have lots of trauma but don't understand some of these new technologies, meaning psychedelic therapies.
And so it feels to me like what I'm trying to do is to really go to where people, I think, have lots of trauma but don't understand some of these new technologies, meaning psychedelic therapies.
And so it feels to me like what I'm trying to do is to really go to where people, I think, have lots of trauma but don't understand some of these new technologies, meaning psychedelic therapies.
Well, new to them. So they've been very much a conservative society. They don't have legal marijuana. They don't have marijuana. How dare you?
Well, new to them. So they've been very much a conservative society. They don't have legal marijuana. They don't have marijuana. How dare you?
Well, new to them. So they've been very much a conservative society. They don't have legal marijuana. They don't have marijuana. How dare you?
Sorry. Yeah, so it was very moving to be there. Just the fact that we were there, that people felt that we were willing to come to the country and be there with them, even though it's in this more safe part of the country. And so the thought that we would – the next steps would all be philanthropy. So I should say that I'm here representing myself.
Sorry. Yeah, so it was very moving to be there. Just the fact that we were there, that people felt that we were willing to come to the country and be there with them, even though it's in this more safe part of the country. And so the thought that we would – the next steps would all be philanthropy. So I should say that I'm here representing myself.
Sorry. Yeah, so it was very moving to be there. Just the fact that we were there, that people felt that we were willing to come to the country and be there with them, even though it's in this more safe part of the country. And so the thought that we would – the next steps would all be philanthropy. So I should say that I'm here representing myself.
I'm not talking on behalf of MAPS and I'm not talking on behalf of Lycos, the pharmaceutical company that – MAPS helped start a while ago. So I'm just talking for myself personally. But what we're trying to do is really respond to where the trauma is. And next week, I'm going to Beirut, which is something I never thought I would be going to.
I'm not talking on behalf of MAPS and I'm not talking on behalf of Lycos, the pharmaceutical company that – MAPS helped start a while ago. So I'm just talking for myself personally. But what we're trying to do is really respond to where the trauma is. And next week, I'm going to Beirut, which is something I never thought I would be going to.
I'm not talking on behalf of MAPS and I'm not talking on behalf of Lycos, the pharmaceutical company that – MAPS helped start a while ago. So I'm just talking for myself personally. But what we're trying to do is really respond to where the trauma is. And next week, I'm going to Beirut, which is something I never thought I would be going to.
But I've been invited to speak at the American University of Beirut and also a YPO sort of business group. And there's the possibility of potentially at least starting research with MDMA therapy in Lebanon as well.
But I've been invited to speak at the American University of Beirut and also a YPO sort of business group. And there's the possibility of potentially at least starting research with MDMA therapy in Lebanon as well.
But I've been invited to speak at the American University of Beirut and also a YPO sort of business group. And there's the possibility of potentially at least starting research with MDMA therapy in Lebanon as well.
It had been legal, but it was sort of quietly used in therapy circles from around 1976 to the early 80s. And then it started leaking out of these therapy circles and started being used as a party drug ecstasy.