First let me apologize if I've come off as defensive or frazzled in this thread. I've been averaging about 4-6hrs of sleep/night for the past two weeks, trying to chase down as many leads as possible before the conference. I've had psychedelic researchers essentially telling me to shut up and drop it. I find that particularly difficult as I see this stuff as more of a threat to what they're doing than to how we operate, so it's really felt like a thankless task in some ways, even with the amazing outpouring of support I've gotten here.
I'm sorry if I've taken that out on anyone here, it's not my intention, I'm just feeling kind of fried. No one asked me to take this on, that's true, it's just felt important. When I look at what psychedelics have done for me, in my life, this feels so incredibly important to stop, I can't even fully articulate the enormity of the emotion behind it.
That said, it's not an excuse for getting sloppy in my interactions with you all, and I need to apologize for the frustration. You're understandably asking clarifying questions and even if you followed the public bits I've tried to indicate, those alone will only take you so far. So, I'm sorry I've been limited on the evidence I can provide. I'm sorry for taking requests for clarification personally. I will do my best to get you all the info you've requested as soon as possible, and I will be better about understanding the skepticism until then.
Thank you for putting up with me, I know this has all been weird as hell (it sure has from my end :lol: ). I have a lot of love for you folks and I hope we'll be able to laugh about this a few months from now.
That said:
obliguhl said:
You may not like my politics, but in this case, my political analysis is literally the thing that has led me down the trail that I'm on and filled several digital folders worth of evidence and observations.
Fair enough, i'm definatly more intrigued. In response to the patent issues...i guess what i'm doubting is, that these patents hold much value, but then if the gov. forces practicioners to follow a certain (patented) protocol, things might look different.
In general, patents seem like a dumb idea to me.
Here is something that I will say and
please note there is a reason I am choosing to highlight these issues
Junk patents are problematic.
Exclusivity deals are problematic.
I agree they seem like a dumb idea. Like I said in my considerations on profits over people, they offer no humanitarian value, but have a huge potential of messing up research via obstructing other parties. But...
Just because we feel these things are dumb (and rightly so! I would contend) doesn't mean they are not viable business strategies. In fact, that was the point in my consideration, so...
How would you feel if a company engaged in such strategies?
How would you feel if the poster child organization for "psychedelic science" supported an organization using such strategies?
Would that not be significant to you?
As to when I can share more info...
I will be sharing a few tidbits, at least, at some point tomorrow.
As far as the full story, not to be a jackass, but some point within the next three months, ideally. I'm working with some folks to get the whole story with all the details/evidence we have discovered. I'm also in conversation with a reporter from a highly credible news service (no BS). I was actually shocked that this company is interested in the story, but it seems like this reporter is uniquely positioned due to embedded experience with the troops and his own lead-in via learning about MDMA for PTSD.
I'm hoping to get the full story done ahead of his ~3mos timeframe for his story, so he can point to the work of the other folks and they can get some recognition/credit for how much they've all been busting their asses.