…and a previous article which sheds some rather sulfurous light on MAPS. (Link below)
A friend and I were, long ago, on a MAPS discussion list when this movement began, a major aim and excuse was to treat returning soldiers.
We questioned the morality of assisting the U.S. Government War Efforts and received a barrage of flack for doing so. Being of a 60s disposition, I only half jokingly quipped that if you wanted to help young people destined to join the military for lack of any other direction in their lives, why not "treat" them BEFORE they enlisted and went on to experience the PTSD creating scenes.
Now I quite think the FDA is full of nonsensical, bought-and-paid-for self-proclaimed experts who are little more than busybodies and moral entrepreneurs, and a reading of their refusal at the link above would confirm this for many, I believe. But considering that DOBLIN and MAPS have tried to turn the whole psychedelic therapy thing into a gigantic money-spinner I have to cheer the FDA's idiocy on this occasion.
Other developments seem much more promising: