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Most coverage of rescheduling treats it as a tax story or a banking story. The research story is what would actually change for investigator-initiated science — and how much of the gap could be closed.
The voucher list does the talking. The same FDA that issued the Lykos CRL still issued the vouchers, and it sent them to programs whose methods it considers defensible. Sponsors who hear political acceleration as scientific accommodation will misread it as the field misread the original draft guidance, and pay the same kind of price.
Six days after Trump's executive order, the agency named three programs for one-to-two-month reviews. The picks reset the field's near-term hierarchy and confirm the methodological reasons the MDMA program is still on the outside.
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First reporting in this vertical publishes this week.
First reporting in this vertical publishes this week.
First reporting in this vertical publishes this week.
Postpartum depression
Major depressive disorder
Treatment-resistant depression
Schizophrenia
Major depressive disorder
Schizophrenia
Treatment-resistant depression
Generalized anxiety disorder
PTSD
Major depressive disorder
Treatment-resistant depression
Treatment-resistant depression
Epilepsy; behavioral indications explored
Multiple sclerosis spasticity
Fragile X syndrome
Major depressive disorder (adjunct)
Schizophrenia (negative symptoms)
Insomnia and anxiety
Most coverage of rescheduling fixates on 280E tax relief. The bigger story is what happens to research registration, FDA pathway access, and the M&A market for MSOs that have been frozen out of institutional capital for a decade.
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