#34: MDMA and social change The Squirrel News Podcast

Can psychedelics like MDMA drive positive social change? Journalist Rachel Nuwer wrote a book on "MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World", and in one chapter she describes how taking the drug in a scientific study seems to have helped a former white nationalist leader change his extremist beliefs. In this episode, Rachel explains how this could be possible, how MDMA could have similar effects on others and where the limits are.

Hosted by Ed Crasnick and Jonathan Widder; edited by Leon Wolf

Photo: Gil Gonzalez

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Stories discussed

How a dose of MDMA transformed a white supremacist, BBC, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230614-how-a-dose-of-mdma-transformed-a-white-supremacist

Rachel Nuwer, I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/i-feel-love-9781635579581/

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