This man could be about to make MDMA legal for therapy. Are we ready for it?

Rick Doblin is a psychedelic pioneer – and he thinks it can help us save the world, one trauma-ending trip at a time

Commanding the stage in an all-white suit and looking like a Graham Greene character or a televangelist, Rick Doblin, an unlikely guru months shy of his 70th birthday, welcomed a roaring crowd to “the psychedelic twenties”.

Doblin is the founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (Maps), which sponsored last summer’s Psychedelic Science conference in Denver, Colorado, where more than 12,000 people gathered for the event.

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