Earlier this year, Alaska Sen. Forrest Dunbar, of Anchorage, said that the Federal Food and Drug Administration was on the cusp of approving a psychedelic known as Ecstasy for psychiatric uses. He and Rep. Jennie Armstrong, both hardline Democrats, pushed legislation to get Alaska ready for controlled use of the drug for conditions such as post traumatic stress disorder. They urgently wanted a psychedelic drug task to develop state regulations in anticipation of the drug being legalized.
Dunbar enthusiastically pushed his legislation, SB 166, which never even made it to the Senate floor. The House version passed.
But now, a new report shows that the very studies used to decide whether the U.S. should authorize Ecstasy for PTSD missed the serious side effects of the drug, including suicidal thoughts, because the subjects in the study were discouraged from reporting adverse side effects. The studies were marked by bias.
Three individuals who were subjects in the studies told The Wall Street Journal that thoughts of suicide increased during or after using Ecstasy, “but their downward slides weren’t captured in trial data and therefore not reflected in the final results.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected this month to decide whether to approve the drug, also known as MDMA or Molly, for treatment of PTSD. The drug became a popular street drug in the 1970s and is used at “rave” dance parties. It acts as both a stimulant and psychedelic, producing an energizing effect, distortions in time and perception, loosening of inhibitions, and enhanced enjoyment of tactile experiences, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency. People who use the drug are temporarily stripped of their rational judgment.
The FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee earlier this year voted against approving the drug for the treatment of post traumatic stress disorder.
The vote, 10-1, showed that the experts feel that the drug made by Lykos Therapeutics is not safe, and its possible benefits don’t outweigh its risks. On a vote of 9-2, the committee also said that MDMA is not effective for treating PTSD, according to the research.
“I’m not convinced at all that this drug is effective based on the data I saw,” commented Rajesh Narendran, a psychiatry professor at the University of Pittsburgh who is the committee’s chairman.
Now, even the data is in question.
The easiest way for him to become governor is if we’re all on X.
My guess is Forrest and Jennie have both had extensive experimenting with Psychedelic Ectsasy to be so enthusiastic about pushing a drug made by Lykos Therapeutics.
Or maybe they or someone who voted/donated for them is heavily invested in the drug company.
Paul and Nancy have become very rich in their investment firm. They are either very good at predicting the market or know “things” the average investor doesnt.
Forrest Dunbar is the face of Anchorage, he’s uninformed, mentally incapacitated and insane!
Andrew Peterson……..as is the newly elected mayor and the assembly we have had for the last five years….
Dont forget delusional and misaligned.
And he is in the closet.
Isn’t he in the Alaska Army National Guard? He needs to be drug tested post haste.
For decades it has been know that this drug causes permanent brain disfunction, which could explain Dunbar’s irrational thought process.
The Democrats love drugs. Open borders to let Fentanyl flow, Oxy, Soboxone for Oxy, Puberty blockers, drugs to make you skinny, drugs to bring you up, down, and everywhere else. Plus, their Pharma buddies get super rich.
He is a politician so he lies and cheats every chance he gets.
Let’s just legalize all drugs and have laws changed so nobody is responsible for their actions.
Let’s make it a free for all for society.
The only people that are to blame for him being in office is the conservatives. Because that group cannot get their collective crap together the liberals will always win, and we suffer. Just think what should happen if the conservatives came together, we would not be reading about there issues.
So we trust government science now, after covid, “the war on drugs”, and all the other lies?
Remember when cannabis was the gateway drug and would hook everyone of heroin? The (government) “campaign for a drug free amerika”.
Just sayin’.
If you don’t want to use it, don’t use it. Doesn’t mean the government should strip people of their rights of bodily autonomy.
John, the “small l” libertarian.