Support FDA approved MDMA and Marijuana research by donating to the Holland Fund via the MAPS webstore

Your tax deductible contribution through the MAPS webstore will help to ensure completion of several important studies investigating the use of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in treating posttraumatic stress disorder and research into the medical uses of marijuana. These studies are being conducted under guidelines set for the by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The Holland Fund for Therapeutic Research with MDMA and Marijuana is administered by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (maps.org). This is a group of scientists from around the world who are committed to furthering research with psychoactive medicines. I have been involved with MAPS since its inception in 1985.

I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have about these studies, or about MDMA or marijuana; just email me at jholland@inch.com

Again, thank you for your time and your generous gift,

Julie Holland, MD

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The Pot Book is a not-for-profit project, with all proceeds from book sales funding research into the therapeutic uses of cannabis and cannabinoid-based medicines. After three years of putting this book together, I'm convinced that cannabis can be re-introduced to physicians and patients as the multifaceted medicine it once was. I think what we will see in the next decade or so is an explosion of research into the therapeutic use of cannabinoids as medications.

Before pot was illegal, it was a medicine used for thousands of years to treat everything from muscle spasms to insomnia. Cannabis has powerful anti-inflammatory activity, it can act as a free-radical scavenger, and most importantly, cannabis has anti-cancer activity. Cannabinoids can kill cancer cells by apoptosis (triggering programmed cell death) while sparing healthy cells, and can also prevent tumor blood supplies from forming, which is called angiogenesis.

Cannabinoids also have a pro-metabolic effect, meaning they may be helpful in stopping the progression of diabetes (partially through its anti-inflammatory action on the cells of the pancreas), as well as helping to normalize blood sugar and cholesterol levels.

Cannabis is a medicine that can slow the prevention of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries, the cause of many heart attacks and strokes) and can modify autoimmune diseases including arthritis, Chron’s disease, and Multiple Sclerosis. (Cannabis doesn’t just relax the spasming muscles and bladders of MS patients, it actually seems to modify the course of illness and may slow neurodegeneration through its neuroprotective effect. The United States has taken out a patent on the use of cannabis as a neuro-protectant, though they continue to keep the plant in Schedule I, reserved for drugs with the highest potential for abuse and no medicinal use. Groups of physicians and nurses including the American Medical Association have requested a review of this scheduling.