MAPS Bulletin - volume xviii - number 3 - winter 2008
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  Front Cover
  Inside Front Cover
1 Table of Contents
2 Letter from Rick Doblin, Ph.D.
3 MAPS' FY 2007-2008 Financial Report
Rick Doblin, Ph.D.
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Procedures for Conducting Legal Psychedelic Studies: MAPS Research Update
Valerie Mojeiko, B.A.
14 What’s Coming Down the MAPS Pipeline
Randolph Hencken, M.A.
16 Speech Acts Associated with MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy
Vicka Rael Corey, Ph.D.
18 New Medicine, New Hope: MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Transcription of Speech Delivered at Bioneers 2008)
Valerie Mojeiko, B.A.
21 Reclaiming My Senses and Myself. A Firsthand Account of MDMA-Assisted Therapy.
A.W.
24 Overcoming PTSD: The Experience of a 9/11 First Responder
Anonymous
26 Ibogaine for Opiate Addiction Outcome Study Begins at Pangea Biomedics
John Harrison, Psy.D. Candidate
30 Update from the UK and an Interview with Dr. Ronald Sandison
Ben Sessa, Ph.D.
34 Black Rock City Renaissance: Burning Man 2008
David Jay Brown, M.A.
37 KosmiCare: Creating Safe Spaces for Difficult Psychedelic Experiences
Svea Nielsen, M.A. & Constance Bettencourt, M.A.
43 Energy Control: Harm Reduction with Drug Analysis at Boom Festival
Mireia Ventura Vilamala, Ph.D.
46 Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine
Review by David Jay Brown, M.A.
47 MAPS - Who We Are
48 MAPS Membership Information & Product Page
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  Back Cover
     
Covers: Samples of new logos submitted by Michael Aubert at Cosmic Egg Studios (www.cosmicegg.com) and several MAPS supporters. Special thank you to Joanna B., Kevin G., Jesse K., Jody S., Tobais P., Evan M., and to Mark Plummer for sharing your talents and ideas. MAPS has used these submissions to generate ideas for a new MAPS logo which will be unveiled early in 2009.
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MAPS Bulletin Winter 2008 - MAPS Fiscal Report - Front Cover Image - Psychedelic Art - potential new logo designs by cosmic egg studios
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Potential New Logo Designs
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Winter 2008/09 Vol. 18, No. 3 MAPS 2008 Financial Report
Summer 2008 Vol. 18, No. 2 Phoenix Rising: A Review of MAPS Research
Spring 2008 Vol. 18, No. 1 Special Edition: Technology and Psychedelics
Winter 2007 Vol. 17, No. 3 MAPS 06-07 Fiscal Yearly Report
Autumn 2007 Vol. 17, No. 2 Special Edition: Psychedelics and Self-Discovery
Spring/Summer 2007 Vol. 17, No. 1 The Chrysalis Stage
Winter 2006-7 Vol. 16, No. 3 Low Maintenance/High Performance
Autumn 2006 Vol. 16, No. 2 Technologies of Healing
Spring 2006 Vol. 16, No. 1 MAPS' 20th Anniversary
Winter 2005 Vol. 15, No. 3 MAPS final year as a teenager
Summer 2005 Vol. 15, No. 2 Israel Conference: MDMA/PTSD Research
Spring 2005 Vol. 15, No. 1 Accelerating flow of work and time
Autumn 2004 Vol. 14, No. 2 Rites of Passage: Kids and Psychedelics
Summer 2004 Vol. 14, No. 1 10 stamps and $250,000
Winter 2003 Vol. 13, No. 2 Holy Fire
Spring 2003 Vol. 13, No. 1 60th Anniversary of the Discovery of LSD
Autumn 2002 Vol. 12, No. 3 Vision
Summer 2002 Vol. 12, No. 2 "From celebration to frustration, and back again."
Spring 2002 Vol. 12, No. 1 Sex, Spirit & Psychedelics 2002
Autumn 2001 Vol. 11, No. 2 "In the future, it will be called Despair."
Spring 2001 Vol. 11, No. 1 "A Tidal Wave of Ecstasy!"
Autumn 2000 Vol. 10, No. 3 Creativity 2000
Summer 2000 Vol. 10, No. 2 Endings and Beginnings
Spring 2000 Vol. 10, No. 1 Making History in Slow Motion
Winter 1999/00 Vol. 9, No. 4 To the Ends of the Earth for MDMA Research...
Autumn 1999 Vol. 9, No. 3 MAPS' long-standing efforts to conduct...
Summer 1999 Vol. 9, No. 2 MAPS has come full circle...
Spring 1999 Vol. 9, No. 1 Patience, persistence and passion
Winter 1998/99 Vol. 8, No. 4 One of special pleasures of directing MAPS...
Autumn 1998 Vol. 8, No. 3 The Ayahuasca Issue (with Hofmann interview)
Summer 1998 Vol. 8, No. 2 Emotionally Powerful Anecdotes...
Spring 1998 Vol. 8, No. 1 Death Has a Way of Focusing One's Attention
Autumn 1997 Vol. 7, No. 4 Celebration is in Order
Summer 1997 Vol. 7, No. 3 Time Horizons
Spring 1997 Vol. 7, No. 2 Synchronicity
Winter 1996/97 Vol. 7, No. 1 Learning to Crawl
Autumn 1996 Vol. 6, No. 4 An Invitation for Dialogue
Summer 1996 Vol. 6, No. 3 Budding Research
New Year 1996 Vol. 6, No. 2 Sending Down Roots
Autumn 1995 Vol. 6, No. 1 Baby Steps
Summer 1995 Vol. 5, No. 4 Opportunity Amidst Obstacles
Winter 1994/95 Vol. 5, No. 3 Clinical Trials and Tribulations
Autumn 1994 Vol. 5, No. 2 Building Towards Clinical Trials
Summer 1994 Vol. 5, No. 1 Politics and Protocols: In Search of a Balance
Spring 1994 Vol. 4, No. 4 Laying the Groundwork
Winter 1993/94 Vol. 4, No. 3 A Time of Tests
Summer 1993 Vol. 4, No. 2 So Close Yet So Far
Spring 1993 Vol. 4, No. 1 Remembrance and Renewal
Winter 1992/93 Vol. 3, No. 4 Forging New Alliances
Summer 1992 Vol. 3, No. 3 Building on Common Ground
Spring 1992 Vol. 3, No. 2 Small Steps, Gradual Progress, New Opportunities
Winter 1991/92 Vol. 3, No. 1 The Rekindling of a Thousand Points of Light
Summer 1991 Vol. 2, No. 2 MDMA protocol development with cancer patients
Winter 1990/91 Vol. 2, No. 1 MAPS' Swiss pharmacologically-assisted psychotherapy conference
Autumn 1990 Vol. 1, No. 3 What and Who is MAPS?
Summer 1989 Vol. 1, No. 2 Switzerland Leads the Way
Summer 1988 Vol. 1, No. 1 MDMA can become a legal medicine