Psh. "Cardiovascular concerns." Fucking read the side effects for the drugs you've already approved, FDA. You've allowed an autoimmune treatment drug that has a high chance of giving terminal fucking cancer, you dumb fucks. Fucking Viagra has "cardiovascular concerns."
Nah, that's not the issue (nor do I believe in magic bullets, but that's a different matter). See, the issue is that MDMA can't be patented. Anyone can make it so no one pharmacorp can have a 20 year monopoly
Well, I guess it's not only that. Psychedelic drugs can really fuck you up, if you aren't prepared. People talk about set and setting a lot.
I suspect that these drugs sure help a lot of people, but can also fuck a lot of people up really badly. It's like, people who don't go along well with these substances, avoid them instinctively.
Now, if someone would prescribe them, I'm pretty sure that a lot of people who are simply not prepared for it mentally (instead blindly trust the medics), would take them and get hurt pretty badly because of that.
There is no such thing as "curing" a mental disorder/disability. Although it could theoretically help speed up recovery from temporary bouts of depression or post-traumatic stress (which is often labelled "PTSD" when it's not), it cannot cure a lifelong disorder like depressive/mood disorders or PTSD & CPTSD. "Curing" a mental disorder would mean making you a completely different person, it's inseparable from the rest of your brain – especially something that leans more into the "neurodivergence" idea, like ADHD or ASD/Autism, which both have imperfect yet effective treatments (ASD less so than ADHD), but "curing" such a thing would be impossible.
The only solution that helps people with disabilities is to make treatment in the form of pharmaceuticals, counselling, and other methods widely available and accessible over the long term – not to look for a cure. Not to say that MDMA can't be used for that though, it definitely can, it'd just be misleading to call it a cure.
I mean if it has an effect on the heart it should be mentioned...in a study about MDMA's effect on the heart...I don't really know how 2 trials about MDMA's psychiatric effects has much to with cardiovascular health. I mean, if you stretch it you can maybe say something about the cardiovascular effects in relation to anxiety, but that's about it.
Addendum: somehow forgot to add "in relation to anxiety"
Yeah. Every drug has side effects; I'm saying that it's a weak excuse for not approving it, considering all of the other crap FDA's approved, with all of the other crap's side effects. So label it, put a warning on it.
Cigarettes will most likely kill you if you smoke enough of them, and FDA still allows their sale even though they have no medical application. Same with alcohol; despite the alcohol industry's efforts to link health benefits with alcohol consumption, there are as many studies showing there's no verifiable link between any benefit and any amount of alcohol consumption. It's a poison that dehydrates you and shrinks your brain a little every time you drink it. But it's legal.
FDA is the only dyke preventing outright charlatanism by the pharma and medical device industries, but fuck them on this topic. They're there to ensure companies don't outright lie to consumers about benefits and risks; preventing access to risky behavior is not their job.
One perfectly safe dose of psilocybin instantly treats depression, anxiety and PTSD for more than 6 months at 80% efficacy, improving sociability, open-mindedness, resetting traumatic patterns, what are the numbers for MDMA, which is more physiologically dangerous and more difficult to apply in therapy?
I know! I'm past the point in my life where I wanna rave, but I feel sorry for kids these days. Who knows what's stuff actually is anymore what with bath salts and fentanyl. Sucks for the chillen. I had some really good times in barn raves out on the prarie
I don't want anyone to take this as an endorsement of recreational drugs, but it sucks you gotta risk od and brain damage to do some molly.