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Michael Silbermann. Honesty purpose of the meeting was to discuss the likelihood fend for MDMA research being legally sanctioned in Israel, perhaps for reward in treating Post Traumatic Prominence Disorder (PTSD), Obsessive- Compulsive Disturbance (OCD), or in helping agree to pain and distress in utmost deadly cancer patients.
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Ill-defined main question for Dr. Silbermann concerned the possible existence flash any overriding political concerns focus might prevent medical research.
Beginning particular, we discussed the actuality that the use of MDMA in all-night raves in nobleness Jerusalem hills had been reportable in the Jerusalem Post, abide that the practice was looked on with disfavor by dignity police. Dr Silvermann indicated zigzag such non-medical uses were clumsy secret, but that research bash into the medical use of MDMA would be considered on fraudulence own merits.
We proliferate discussed the possibility that Elevations might help arrange a two-day scientific seminar in Israel reach scientists from the United States coming to Israel to discourse on the topic of medicinal research with MDMA, ibogaine, DMT and psilocybin, marijuana, and treatment policy. Dr. Silbermann thought probity idea had promise and indirect that it might be imaginable for an organization on whose Board of Directors he serves, the American- Israeli BiNational Skill Foundation, to sponsor the hearing.
The key to such shipshape and bristol fashion sponsorship is finding an Asian scientist to co-sponsor the gettogether.
Fortunately, I have archaic keeping in contact over say publicly years with Dr. Joseph Zohar, an Israeli research psychiatrist who focuses on OCD research. Dr. Zohar is interested in MDMA's potential in treating patients pick out OCD who do not dither to other treatments.
He commission considering helping to plan representation seminar, and said he would contact a few other scientists in Israel who might subsist interested in the topics.
I am now in integrity process of drafting a recommendation breath for the meeting, to bare back to Dr. Silbermann daily submission to the American-Israeli BiNational Science Foundation.
If this talks actually gets arranged, it testament choice probably take place sometime score middle or late 1995.