Sam Altman-Backed SF Company Making ‘Legal Ecstasy’ Wins Approval to Conduct Clinical Trials

Company backed by Sam Altman gets FDA approval to trial ‘legal MDMA’

Clinical trials of ‘safer MDMA’ could lead to new way of treating mental health problems, biotech firm says

Sam Altman-Backed SF Company Making ‘Legal Ecstasy’ Wins Approval to Conduct Clinical Trials

An SF-based biotech company is working on a safer, reformulated version of MDMA, better known as ‘molly’ or ‘ecstasy,’ and we’re not tripping when we say they just won FDA approval to begin Phase 1 clinical trials.We have occasionally covered Bay Area medical research into MDMA, the street drug known as “ecstasy” or “molly,” and perhaps a little too enthusiastically at that. But it’s hard to keep our serotonin in check over today’s news in the S…