#34: MDMA and social change

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


Stories discussed


How a dose of MDMA transformed a white supremacist, BBC


Rachel Nuwer, I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a
Fractured World, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023


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