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PineappleFundon Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research

I just also want to note that there are also people who have experienced negative reactions with just one night of MDMA. All drugs have side effects.

While I think MDMA-assisted psychotherapy is extremely promising, MDMA itself is definitely not risk free (especially when obtained from unregulated and adulterated sources); and various complications can and do occur.

PineappleFundon Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research

Thanks Jim! Let me know if there's anything I can do to make things easier for the NGOs!

Some days, I still wake up and I'm a little bit astonished about the impact that my bitcoins can have. I certainly would've never predicted this when I first got into bitcoin.

PineappleFundon Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research

Thanks for your donation! (that will be matched :)

The Phase 2 trials and FDA's breakthrough therapy designation along shows strong medical value of MDMA, especially in a clinical context with psychotherapy sessions and a trained therapist.

I hope this starts a renaissance in the use of psychedelics to treat, long term (with short term drug applications), many mental conditions.

PineappleFundon Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research

Thanks :)

PineappleFundon Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research

I'm glad to hear about your life changing experience! MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, as done by MAPS, involves 12 therapy sessions along with 3 MDMA-assisted therapy sessions; as such, I expect the results to be stronger than MDMA under party circumstances.

The Phase 2 trials have showed that 63% no longer meets the criteria of PTSD 2 months after the last MDMA session, as compared to 25% for the placebo.

As for how long your results may last, another study conducted by MAPS after 2.5 years found that the effects have generally still persisted.

PineappleFundon Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

Hi, creator of the Pineapple Fund here (pineapplefund.org/verification.txt)

I am actually quite sad to see the current state of the cryptocurrency community, and how people in it these days widely misrepresent the risk and intricacies of bitcoin/crypto.

When I first got into bitcoin, most people were there because they were fascinated in building a decentralized currency. Profit seeking was always a part, but not the predominant part.

I'm a little bit sad to see where crypto is today. But I think the original faction is still alive.