Richard Elliot Doblin was born on November 30,1953 and is an American drug activist and executive who is the founder and former executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.
10 Facts About Rick Doblin
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Rick Doblin is the first of four children to pediatrician Morton Doblin and schoolteacher Arline Doblin.
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Rick Doblin has three younger siblings, Bruce, Sharon, and Stuart Doblin.
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From 1975 until 1982, Rick Doblin owned and operated a company called Braxas Construction, located in the Sarasota, Florida area, which specialized in relocating houses.
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Rick Doblin obtained a psychology degree from New College of Florida in 1987.
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Rick Doblin's undergraduate thesis at New College of Florida was a 25-year follow-up to the classic Good Friday Experiment, which evaluated the potential of psychedelic drugs to catalyze religious experiences.
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Rick Doblin conducted a thirty-four year follow-up study to Timothy Leary's Concord Prison Experiment.
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Rick Doblin studied with Dr Stanislav Grof and was among the first to be certified as a Holotropic Breathwork practitioner.
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Rick Doblin co-founded Earth Metabolic Design Laboratories in 1984 to support psychedelic research and Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies in 1986 with the goal of making MDMA an FDA-approved medicine.
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Rick Doblin's life is profiled in former Washington Post Magazine editor Tom Shroder's book Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal.