December 27, 2005. The New York Daily News Washington Bureau published a succint and informative article about the DEA Lawsuit.

  An article in the Washington Post, "A Political Debate On Stress Disorde," by Shankar Vedantam, reports that in 2004 the US Veterans Affairs Department spent $4.3 billion on PTSD benefit payments to a total of 215,871 veterans. If the results of the second half of our MDMA/PTSD study are as promising as the results of the first half, we will have data suggesting that it would be financially wise for the VA to fund the entire $5 million cost of MAPS' Phase III studies to evaluate whether MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD should become approved by the FDA as a legally-available treatment for PTSD.

December 24, 2005.  Mail & Guardian Online, Africa's first online newspaper, published Daddy Ecstasy, an positive article offering a window into the world of Sasha Shulgin, tracing his path as the forgotten father of modern ecstasy and his thoughts on current therapeutic uses of MDMA.

December 23, 2005.  An article by Reuters news service, "Medical frauds: Korean scientist hardly the first", lists several previous articles that have had to be withdrawn from major medical journals. Included in the list is the 2002 paper in /Science/ by Ricaurte/McCann claiming that MDMA damaged dopamine neurons and could cause Parkinson's, retracted since the animals had actually been administered methamphetamine and not MDMA.

December 20, 2005.  The Village Voice published Busted for Iboga, reporting on the recent arrest of a Wyoming couple who planned to import the drug for addiction treatment. It points out ibogaine's success in curing addiction and the negative images generated by such DEA busts and the presence of makeshift clinics around the country.

December 19, 2005.  The Daily Journal published Ole Miss marijuana monopoly under fire, reporting on the University of Mississippi's insistence that their marijuana is of an acceptable grade.

December 13, 2005. The Associated Press published Prof. questions gov't monopoly on marijuana, a positive article about the DEA Lawsuit.

  The West Palm Beach Florida News published Government's Medical Pot 'Just Isn't Strong Enough'.

December 12, 2005. The Washington Post published Federal Marijuana Monopoly Challenged, an article that comprehensively summarizes the MAPS/Craker DEA Lawsuit, quoting Lyle Craker, Rick Doblin, and Grover Norquist.

December 5, 2005. A press release was issued today, "DEA to Argue Against U. Mass Growing of Medicinal Cannabis at Administrative Hearing December 12-16: Grover Norquist, Medical Groups and 35 Members of Congress Tell DEA They Support Expanded Research." We've also posted background information including transcripts of the hearing.

December 3, 2005.  Reuter's published Ecstasy 'has great potential', a short article referencing Sasha Shulgin's talk at MIT and his concerns for MDMA's fate to be known as a dangerous club drug rather than a powerful medicine.

December 2, 2005. Leading the Charge, an Australian weekly newspaper, published "Dr. Ecstasy" laments the rave drugs notoriety, quoting Sasha Shulgin from his talk at MIT about the path and fate of MDMA in our society. The article also mentions the MAPS/MDMA study with Dr. Mithoefer, although not by name.

November 29, 2005. NORML.org published NIDA's Pot Monopoly To Resume Next Month.

November 16, 2005. A Reuters news service article, "Pressure on FDA could stall advances," by Michael Conlon, discusses the political pressures on FDA regarding women's health issues. This sort of pressure isn't happening with psychedelic and marijuana research, where science still carries the day.

November 15, 2005. An excellent roundtable discussion about psychedelics and Judaism was published in Jewish Currents, published by the Association for Promotion of Jewish Secularism, Inc. The article is entitled, "Just Say Maybe- Psychedelic Drugs, Healing and Politics: An Interview with Four Jewish Researchers (Rick Doblin, Charlie Grob, Julie Holland, Howard Lotsof).

November 11, 2005. The Good Drugs Guide Radio show, out of England, broadcast a show entitled,"The State of Ecstasy." The show is described as follows, "It's ten years since the death of Leah Betts, a teenager who died after taking a single tablet of ecstasy, also known as MDMA. Her tragic death triggered a huge backlash against the drug here in the UK. Even so, 700,000 people still take E every week in this country. So what have we learnt about ecstasy in the last decade? Do the stories of terrible comedowns, brains like swiss cheese, and instant death have any credibility? Could MDMA really become a prescription drug? And has the music got any better? We find out. Guests include Dr Julie Holland, author of Ecstasy The Complete Guide, Rick Doblin, president of MAPS.org, and Mike Linnell of drug charity Lifeline. The show also uses clips from the excellent ABC documentary, Ecstasy Rising."

November 7, 2005. Harvard University's web site presents a story about Dr. John Halpern's peyote study in the upper right hand corner of the home page!!

  The Washington Post publishes an article covering John Halpern's peyote study.

  The Daily Texan, the newspaper of the University of Texas at Austin, published a letter about, "The harms of MDMA" that presented misleading information about MAPS' MDMA research projects. The letter critiqued a previous column entitled, "Debunking drug folklore," MAPS President Rick Doblin replied to correct the record. While taking time to write to a student newspaper may not at first glance represent a wise use of MAPS staff time, in the age of Google, even student letters can be read by a large number of people, especially when the topic is discussed repeatedly in the student newspaper. Indeed, the Daily Texan also published a more reasonable letter, "The harm of Ecstacy, II." While MAPS concentrates on scientific research, our educational mission is also of major importance.

November 6, 2005. Maariv, a popular daily newspaper in Israel, published "Peyote to the masses - new research conducted among native Americans shows that the drug produced from the Peyote cactus does not harm the brain - perhaps even the contrary!" In Hebrew, the article references John Halpern's Peyote study.

November 4, 2005. PBS's Religon and Ethics NewsWeekly ran a segment about the Supreme Court and Brazilian Religious Rituals, discussing the seizure of hoasca tea imported from Brazil for religious-worship purposes. The timing of Justice O'Connor's departure from the Supreme Court and the possiblity of Samuel Alito's confirmation to the Court will likely be the deciding factors in the case.

November 2, 2005. "Justices Weighing Narcotics Policy Against Needs of a Church," a NYTimes article by Linda Greenhouse discusses yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court case about whether the religious use of ayahuasca is protected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or whether the DEA can criminalize that use, which is what DEA wants to do.

AP wire service reporter Gina Holland also wrote an article, High Court Hears Hallucinogenic Tea Case.

October 21, 2005.  An article in the UCLA Daily Bruin discusses animal rights protesters objecting to a proposed study in primates, "Making Connections: MDMA Research on the Mechanisms of Affiliation and Trust." The article mentions that this research was submitted for funding to MAPS, by Anthropology Professor Alan Page Fiske, who is quoted as saying, "The biggest problems we have in the world are people not trusting each other and not feeling a solidarity (and) feeling distant," Fiske said. "If we could understand the basis of compassion and caring, that's about the most important thing human and biological sciences could do." A MAPS Bulletin article about Prof. Fiske's research can be found here. At present, there is no funding for the study.

Briefly stated, MAPS has not funded animal research for about ten years but is not categorically opposed to doing so if the research is of sufficient importance. MAPS considers Prof. Fiske's proposed research to be sufficiently important to be worthy of being conducted but the information it would generate isn't essential for MAPS' program of research intended to develop MDMA into an FDA-approved prescription medication. MAPS' top priority is our human studies into the therapeutic use of MDMA. These studies require substantial resources so our intention is to conduct further research in animals only when required by FDA.

October 19, 2005. October 19, 2005. Mother Jones Magazine publishes, "Respectable Reefer," an excellent article about medical marijuana by Gary Greenberg that discusses GW Pharmaceuticals, MAPS and drug war politics.

October 15, 2005. The British Journal of Psychiatry publishes four letters and a reply, commenting on Ben Sessa's June 15, 2005 editorial urging the resumption of psychedelic research.

September 19, 2005. An article from Salon.com marks the The Return of Reefer Madness, as the US Drug Czar's marketing implies a connection between marijuana and insanity.

September 18, 2005. The Washington Post published "A Rare and Unusual Harvest," an article about the Native American Church's efforts to successfully maintain peyote cultivation in the United States.

  The Tampa Tribune reports about the use of ketamine-induced comas in chronic regional pain syndrome.

September 12, 2005. Mexican website ViveConDrogas.com published "Septiembre y el xtasis," an intriguing article about drug policy reform and MAPS-funded MDMA research.

September 1, 2005. A summary of recent press coverage of the MAPS/Craker/DEA hearing is available here.

  The Sarasota-Herald Tribune published Cannabis College, an article about New College of Florida's ranking in High Times Magazine's list of the nation's top cannabis colleges. The article quotes Rick Doblin, who received his undergraduate degree from New College.

August 31, 2005. Julia Thompson from McMaster University in Canada published "LSD finds new respectability." The article references the MDMA studies and protocols currently underway and points out that the term 'psychedelic' was coined in Canada.

August 27, 2005. The New York Times published op-ed column "Marijuana Pipe Dreams" by John Tierney, reporting on the current Craker-DEA lawsuit. In a subsequent letter to the editor responding to the mention of a Marinol patient choking to death on his own vomit, Michael Simmons informed the New York Times of the vomit-choking myth.

August 25, 2005. The Sacramento Bee Washington Bureau published Clash over pot research gets personal, an article about the DEA-Craker lawsuit proceedings including a quote from Rick Doblin.

August 22, 2005. The ACLU issues a press release on the MAPS DEA Lawsuit proceedings.

August 18, 2005. The Perspective Section of the New England Journal of Medicine published an article, "Medical Marijuana and the Supreme Court," by Susan Oakie, MD, a contributing editor of the Journal. Click here for full text version.

August 17, 2005. Commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), by Dean Lawrence Gostin, Georgetown Law School, criticizes NIDA for blocking medical marijuana research. The article is entitled, "Medical Marijuana, American Federalism, and the Supreme Court."

August 2, 2005. London's Guardian publishes a positive article by Mark Honigsbaum, "Headache sufferers flout new drug law- Calls for clinical trials and rethink of legislation as patients claim that magic mushrooms can relieve excruciating condition." MAPS' effort to sponsor research into the use of LSD and psilocybin in treating cluster headaches is favorably mentioned.

July 26, 2005. San Francisco Chronicle publishes this op-ed about medical pot regulation and the measures San Fransciso is taking to protect its medical marijuana patients.

June 20, 2005. A new political advertisement about medical marijuana, mentioning federal obstruction of research and providing a link to the MAPS website for more information, appeared in the National Review, the New Republic, the American Prospect, The Nation, Reason Magazine, and The Progressive. The ad was placed by Common Sense for Drug Policy.

June 17, 2005. UK News site Guardian Unlimited ran this story about Alexander Shulgin, his history as a pharmacologist, and the repercussions of his 1965 synthesis of MDMA.

June 15, 2005. Dr. Ben Sessa's article from the British Journal of Psychiatry debates whether psychedelics can have a role in psychiatry again. On October 15, 2005, the Journal published four letters and a reply, commenting on the editorial and its urging for the resumption of psychedelic research. Ben also conducted an interview with Dr. Ronnie Sandison, inventor of the word "psycholytic.

June 9, 2005. Mark Miller of High Times magazine puts forth a review of the Mindstates Conference held in San Francisco this past May, including quotes from MAPS Founder and President Rick Doblin.

June 8, 2005. Sally Satel pens an Op-Ed in the New York Times today about medical marijuana, focusing on Lyle Craker, UMass Amherst and Federal obstruction of medical marijuana research.

  Wired Magazine writes Legal Pot's No Pipe Dream, discussing the recent Supreme Court decision on medical marijuana and MAPS efforts to estabish a medical marijuana pilot production facility at the University of Massachussets at Amherst with Professer Lyle Craker.

  DesMoines Register Columnist Rekha Basu delivers a compassionate and practical article on the benefits of marijuana and the "Catch-22" of the present medical marijuana struggle. She dicusses the treatment limitations that patients with serious illnesses face and urges Americans to "push their representatives for legalization of medicinal marijuana and for more unbiased research."

June 7, 2005. Ryan Grim, Salon Magazine, publishes his article A guide to Gonzales vs. Raich, What the medical marijuana ruling means for patients, the commerce clause, marital sex, Antonin Scalia's career and more. Ryan writes "But if the Supreme Court told us nothing else on Monday, it was that if this drug quagmire is ever going to end, it'll have to be stopped by the ones who started it: members of Congress. Until then, we'll gradually build our way to a society where half the population is locked in prison and the other half is guarding the prisoners."

June 2, 2005. Molly Brown of Medill News Service reports on the case between the religious group Uniao do Vegetal (UDV) and the U.S. Supreme Court on the legal status of their sacrament, the Amazonian brew ayahusaca, in this comprehensive article.

June 1, 2005. Italian publication Il Manifesto reports on MDMA research and quotes Rick Doblin.

May 25, 2005. The Church of Scientology puts out an article dismissing the therapeutic, medicinal uses of psychedelics and thus continuing the war on psychiatry.

May 23, 2005. Online Publication Nursing Spectrum puts forth an article discussing the Harvard study of MDMA psychotherapy for treatment of anxiety associated with terminal cancer. Author Lisette Hilton quotes Dr. John Halpern that "the benefits of this therapy would have greater application for nurses who tend to dying patients on a daily basis than for the physicians who prescribe the therapy."

  The CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Weekly published an excellent cover story by Tim Starks, entitled "New Prescriptions for War Trauma." The article interviews Dr. Michael Mithoefer and discusses the MAPS-sponsored study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in the treatment of PTSD.

May 19, 2005. Psychology Today offers two articles about psychedelic research constraints in the United States, one from 2005 and the other from 1994. Compare what 11 years can do!

May 18, 2005. Join Together, a drug abuse prevention organization, ran a news summary regarding the recent St. Petersburg Times article on the MDMA research MAPS sponsors.

May 16, 2005. Canadian newspaper Northern Life ran an article in the online "police beat" section by Jason Thompson in which Dr. Stephen Kish of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, among others, discuss problems and potential of MDMA use.

May 12, 2005. Rick Doblin appeared on Joe Scarborough's MSNBC segment yesterday. Here is a transcript as well as a video of the interview.

May 11, 2005.  Dr. Meg Jordan, Global Medicine Hunter, puts out a podcast about MAPS' research into the use of MDMA in the treatment of postraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Iraq War vets, and about her work with the therapeutic use of MDMA in the late 1970s!

May 9, 2005. The International edition of Newsweek published "A Psychedelic Cure", a piece similar to the a piece published last week in the domestic edition, but with greater discussion of proposed studies of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in Spain and Israel..

  The St. Petersburg Times ran a front page article,"Party pill gets tryout in therapy" written by Janet Zink, offering reporting on MAPS' mission of decriminizaling the use of MDMA for therapeutic purposes.

May 2, 2005. Newsweek Magazine runs a story on MDMA research by Eve Conant, Ecstasy: A Possible New Role for A Banned Club Drug.

April 19, 2005. Paul Malkowski conducted an excellent interview with Rick Doblin for a future issue of Recharge e-zine (http://www.rechargemag.com). Paul asked some great questions during the interview. Tragically, Paul died a few days after he completed the interview.

April 18, 2005. Fox News Online recently published "Red Tape, Big Pharm Muscle Strangling Medical Marijuana," a piece discussing the difficulties of conducting medical marijuana research with current restrictions on the supply of cannabis for research, with quotes from Lyle Craker and John Halpern.

April 11, 2005. The LA Times published, "Ecstasy's Good Side", reporting on MDMA/cancer anxiety study to be conducted by John Halpern MD, and discussed related studies (such as the study of psilocybin in people wiht cancer-related anxiety conducted by Charles Grob MD, and the ongoing study of MDMA in people with PTSD. Note that the article erroneously reports on the location of the last study, which is at the offices of Michael Mithoefer MD, and not at the Medical University of South Carolina.

March 29, 2005. The New York Times published "Medicinal Marijuana On Trial", discussing medical marijuana research and Ashcroft v. Raich.

March 25, 2005. The largest Israeli newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, published a favorable article about MAPS' Israeli conference, which took place the day before, and the use of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The article was accompanied by an incredible graphic of a drowning man holding on to a life preserver that was actually an Ecstasy pill with a smiling face.

March 20, 2005. The (Sydney, Australia) Sunday Telegraph reported on MAPS-supported research into psilocybin and LSD in people with cluster headaches to take place at McLean Hospital. The report contains a number of factual errors concerning the research and other research studies mentioned throughout the piece.

March 18, 2005. Two articles in a newspaper in Ibiza (El Mundo), "An association which supports drug research auctions off a week "of dancing" in Eivissa on the Internet", and "Eivissa's 'raves' have made this tourist destination mythic" discuss MAPS' ebay auction of, among other things, a week at a "villa in Ibiza" and report on MAPS' agenda.

March 17, 2005. Wired News published "You Need Money to Feed Your Head", a short article discussing the MAPS auction that will run from March 14 to March 21, 2005.

March 8, 2005. The NPR show, To the Point, hosted by Warren Olney, discussed Dr. Michael Mithoefer's MAPS-sponsored MDMA/PTSD study and FDA's newly approved expansion of the study to include subjects with war-related PTSD. Guests include Dr. Andrew Pomeranz (PTSD therapist), Dr. Michael Mithoefer, Rick Doblin, Ph.D. and Robert Dupont, Ph.D. (first Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse). The story runs from 23:35-50:52.

  The Scientist published "Renewed Faith in Ecstasy", a brief article on the recent history and progress of MDMA research, and featuring quotes from Rick Doblin.

March 4, 2005. BBC On-Line published an article describing recently published findings that ecstasy use was associated with increased self-reported symptoms of depression, but only in people who have a certain form of the serotonin transporter gene. You can also read a commentary on the paper.

February 28, 2005. An article in The Scientist magazine by Alison McCook discusses struggles with DEA over MAPS' psychedelic and medical marijuana research protocols.

February 26, 2005. New Scientist published a lengthy and extensive overview of current and planned research into the medical or psychiatric benefits of psychedelic substances, including MDMA, psilocybin, LSD, ketamine and ibogaine, and covernig a wide array of MAPS-supported and Heffter Institute supported studies.. The article contains a history of medical research with psychedelics.

February 23, 2005. The Boston Globe published a lengthy piece on the MDMA/cancer anxiety study that will take place at Harvard University's McLean Hospital. The piece features quotes from Halpern and from Rick Doblin.

  National Public Radio (NPR)'s "All Things Considered" aired an interview of John Halpern, who spoke about the MDMA/cancer anxiety study. You can hear a recording of the interview on the NPR website or you can read the transcripts of the interview.

  ABC World News Tonight briefly reported on the MDMA/cancer anxiety study to be conducted by John Halpern MD.

  New England Cable News airs a segment on the MAPS' sponsored study at Harvard's McLean Hospital investigating the efficacy of MDMA in reducing the anxiety experienced by terminally ill cancer patients. Click here and scroll down to the 2/23/05 item "Doctors Look To Study Ecstasy's Effects" to view the video.

February 17, 2005. The Guardian published an extensive discussion of current and planned research into the therapeutic uses of MDMA and psychedelic drugs. The article quotes John Halpern, Rick Doblin and Michael Mithoefer, and covers a surprising breadth of current and planned research in this area.

  The Guardian published another report specifically noting the recent expansion of the MDMA/PTSD study to now accept people with combat-related PTSD. The report features quotes from Michael Mithoefer, the prinicpal investigator. This is not a "new" study specifically looking at combat stress. Rather, the ongoing study is now no longer restricted to people with crime-related PTSD.

  The German newspaper Der Spiegel published a report on the recent expansion of the MDMA/PTSD study to include people with combat-related PTPSD that is even more muddled than the report from the Guardian, above. Not only does this report suggest that a new investigation is underway, but that the US military is involved in this study. As already noted, there is no new study specifically studying MDMA-assisted therapy in people with combat-related PTSD, and the military has not been involved in any step of this research so far.

February 16, 2005. The January issue of the Brazilian science magazine Galileu published "Da Balada Para o Diva,", an article in Portugese by Juliana Tiraboschi about research into the potentially therapeutic uses of MDMA.. The paper discusses the MDMA/PTSD study and quotes MAPS president Rick Doblin. You can also read a PDF version of the article.

  Dr. Michael Mithoefer and Annie Mithoefer were guests on Kathleen Brooks' radio show on World Talk Radio, Darkness to Light: Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence, for an hour-long discussion of their MAPS-sponsored MDMA/PTSD study.

February 5, 2005.  The New Scientist publishes "Cannabis: Prescribing the Miracle Weed" by Clare Wilson. The initial MAPS-sponsored medical marijuana research efforts of Dr. Donald Abrams are discussed though MAPS is not mentioned.

February 4, 2005. The UCLA newspaper the Daily Bruin featured a report on Charles Grob's research on psilocybin in people with cancer experiencing anxiety relating to their illness. The piece quoted Grob and Dr. John Halpern, the principal investigator of the MAPS-sponsored study of MDMA in people with cancer-related anxiety.

January 30, 2005. January 30, 2005. The New York Times Sunday Magazine published a profile of psychedelic chemist, Sasha Shulgin, that highlighted the approval of MDMA research at Harvard sponsored by MAPS (though MAPS was not mentioned). The article includes a quote from Dr. Steve Hyman, Harvard Provost and ex-Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, saying that he is skeptical whether MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with anxiety associated with advanced-stage cancer will actually prove beneficial but that he thinks the research should go forward. The ghost of Timothy Leary has now definitely be laid to rest at Harvard. Now it's up to us to prove what we have been saying for decades, that MDMA and other psychedelics have remarkable healing potentials. As the saying goes, "Beware what you wish for." The challenge of proving the safety and efficacy of psychedelic psychotherapy is formidable, but definitely a goal worth the decades of prior and future work.

January 21, 2005. Psychiatry News (a publication of the American Psychiatric Association) reported on the proposed MDMA/cancer anxiety study, with quotes from principal investigator John Halpern MD..

January 20, 2005. The New York Times published an article about dream machines that featured Kate Chapman, described in the article as "a former neuroscience researcher for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies." Kate worked on a rat MDMA neurotoxicity study funded by MAPS as well as on the Janiger follow-up study.

  The Drug-Free America Foundation, Inc. reports on its website on the DEA rejection of the UMass Amherst application for a license to establish a facility to produce marijuana for federally-approved research.

January 18, 2005. A Newsweek article about DEA's rejection of Prof. Craker's UMass Amherst application does a good job of explaining the issues but takes some pot shots at MAPS.

January 16, 2005. The Boston Globe published an article contrasting FDA approval of MAPS' study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with anxiety associated with advanced-stage cancer with DEA rejection of Prof. Lyle Craker's MAPS-sponsored application for a license to establish a facility to produce marijuana for federally-approved research.

  The Week in Review section of the Sunday New York Times had a thoughtful but rather snide and inaccurate article on the research into the use of MDMA and psilocybin in the treatment of anxiety associated with advanced cancer.

   Prof. Mark Kleiman criticizes a NYTimes article on the use of psychedelics in treating anxiety in subjects with advanced-stage cancer. He notes the flawed central assumption of the article which is that "all "drugs" are alike, and that "drugs" have the property of dulling perception and cognition, making people less present to what is happening to them."

January 13, 2005. The Village Voice Educational supplement published an article describing Dr. David Nichols' LSD research. The piece also mentions Dr. Franz Vollenweider's psilocybin research..

January 8, 2005. Dr. John Halpern is the guest on C-SPAN's Washington Journal for a live, half-hour national call-in show focused on Dr. Halpern's MAPS-sponsored study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with anxiety associated with advanced-stage cancer.

January 7, 2005. An editorial published by The Oregonian, "Stop Blocking Marijuana Research", supports the UMass Amherst project.

  The Boston Herald published a short piece describing the MDMA /cancer anxiety study, quoting primary investigator John Halpern and MAPS President Rick Doblin.

January 5, 2005. The Harvard Crimson reported on the MDMA/cancer anxiety study that will be taking place at McLean Hospital. Principal Investigator John Halpern MD is quoted, as well as MAPS President Rick Doblin PhD. The on-line version of this article has a link to a letter written by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) and published in the Crimson in 1962.

  The San Diego City Beat published a discussion and analysis of a recent legal challenge to the HHS to change how marijuana is scheduled, with the legal challenge relying on a 2002 law, the Data Quality Act, originally crafted to benefit the tobacco industry and other corporate interests.

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