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The post Why Trump is encouraging psychedelics for mental health appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Marie Phelan said she had never heard of MDMA before spotting a flyer seeking veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. Now, she says the psychoactive drug more commonly known as ecstasy or molly has changed the trajectory of her life. “My experience of MDMA was that it just cracked my heart wide open,” said Phelan who enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve in 1999 and was deployed to Iraq in 2003. “I was carrying this big heavy rucksack and I just put it down on the beach and I started unpacking it one little teeny tiny thing at a time and setting each little thing out on the waves,” Phelan said of the release from the treatment. Phelan isn’t alone turning to alternative treatments for trauma. She is among a small group of Americans who have undergone psychedelic-assisted therapy through clinical trials studying new approaches to mental health treatment. Now, access to those