Editing Rick Doblin (section)

==Early life and education==
Rick Doblin grew up in Skokie, Illinois as the oldest of four children in a Jewish family.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rowland |first=Katherine |date=2024-02-29 |title=Thanks to this man, MDMA could soon be legal for therapy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/29/mdma-therapy-legal-rick-doblin |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> He first enrolled in Florida's New College (now [[New College of Florida]]) in 1971, but dropped out after one semester, later re-enrolling and completing a bachelor's in psychology. Doblin later went on to get his doctorate in public policy at Harvard's [[Harvard Kennedy School|Kennedy School of Government]], graduating in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Silman |first=Anna |title=MDMA therapy could be legal by summer. Why are so many advocates sounding the alarm? |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/mdma-therapy-maps-lykos-rick-doblin-fda-legalization-trials-2024-5 |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}}</ref> Doblin's PhD thesis is titled ''Regulation of the Medical Use of Psychedelics and Marijuana'', and was published in June 2000.<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Doblin |first=Richard |date=2000 |title=Regulation of the Medical Use of Psychedelics and Marijuana |url=https://maps.org/research-archive/dissertation/dissertation.pdf |access-date=2024-11-07}}</ref>