halfdogjury

The past few years has seen the introduction of 25I-NBOMe and its derivatives to the street. Despite lack of research and an apparent danger of the drug, it is very often sold to unsuspecting people as LSD. Whether it be called partying or anything else, it's clear that people who use street drugs are self medicating. Since there are very few avenues for the public to obtain therapy assisted by the LSD experience, I do not personally blame anyone seeking this. However, since the introduction of 25I-NBOMe deceptively falling into the hands of people who have read all of your amazing success stories about LSD, some very bad stories have begun to reach major media outlets.

So two questions:

1. How can MAPS influence the media coverage of this 25I-NBOMe phenomenon to educate that this is definitely not LSD, and in doing so positively raise awareness of the good that you are doing?

2. Since there is no stopping people from self medicating in the absence of official channels, how can people tell the difference between these chemicals?

I realize that you personally represent the official channels for how one goes about receiving this kind of therapy, but in all seriousness, your test groups are too small to consider someone like myself any thousands of others who suffer from traumatic memories ect that do not even come close to the things your patients have endured like war or rape. So until your services can legally broaden, I can't blame people for seeking these answers on their own.

Thanks for letting me know about the test kit. ;) I'll look into that.

Thank you for the reply, I really appreciate it. Your answer and experience punctuates the reason I asked this of MAPS. I'm very concerned that as 25i gets around and these scary stories come out that it will harm the movement psychedelic therapy movement that is so crucial to what MAPS does. I know it's not the same chemical but we all know that the media paints horrific pictures with a wide brush, and public sentiment means so much to what MAPS is doing.

http://www.maps.org/participate/volunteer

Will you continue to use this drug when the study has completed?