The medicines regulator is seeking feedback on a proposal to legalise the active ingredients in ecstasy pills and magic mushrooms for mental health treatment | Dana_Adele
Ms de Jong pointed to phase two MDMA trials in the United States that had found more than half of participants went into remission after undergoing the therapy, a significantly better outcome than conventional psychiatric drugs.
The US Food and Drug Administration has granted MDMA-assisted psychotherapy the status of a breakthrough therapy, allowing research to be fast-tracked and prompting optimism the drug could be approved there by 2021.Ms de Jong said she believed MDMA and psilocybin would have a larger medicinal market than cannabis as "we have such a huge mental health crisis and the need is so great".
"Psychedelics have been around for some time. There's only more recently some promising research evidence, but it's too early to say they should be listed for general use," he said.
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