MDMA-Ecstasy due to be approved by FDA for use with ptsd in 2021

I just read this on Apple News feed today in December 2019.
Apple News has a lot of new psych news every day. It's great!
You can choose which topics you want to follow.

if you mean this article right here, if you look at the date you will see the article was wrote in 2016 (three almost 4 years ago)

in other words this is not new nor has it moved beyond "study" phases. all the FDA has approved it for was for studying on human case subjects.

in other words a very few PTSD patients that meet a very strict guideline of what ever the case is studying, have been for the last 3 years been taking Ecstasy with treatment providers closely monitoring and adjusting the drug to find out what it does for that symptom that the case study is for.

example I participated in a new drug case study for MS (Multiple Sclerosis) the drug was not approved at the end of the study because though it worked for spasms / twitches it did nothing to prevent the covering of nerves from deteriorating. though the drug was not approved for MS like journalists jumping the gun reported the drug was approved for a muscle relaxer.

in other words the article does not say which of the PTSD symptoms Ecstasy is being studied for. it could just be the anxiety symptom, or memory or flashbacks, or what ever. if it shows it doesn't work for all the PTSD symptoms it wont be approved as a PTSD drug.

right now the drug is just in "Case Study" phase not as in going to be approved by such and such date. the journalist who wrote this states in the article its been approved for study,

for all we know between now and a year from now the study could come forwards with negative things where the FDA halts the study and refuses to release it for mass production and mass prescribing with all treatment providers.

right now its just in case study phase. a lot can happen.

my opinion of the article is the byline is misleading because it led people three years ago to assume its already a done deal when its not. and now that the calendar is turning to 2020 of course news outlets are going to revisit the issue and of course they ae going to put catchy bylines / headlines on the articles that will get people to click on them and read them. (many companies are now sponsored where they get paid for how many times their articles are read and reviewed online now. such is life of the internet, misleading and outdated articles coming to the surface again and again.

I do believe there is a lot of fake news, like all the hoo ha about impeachment when the Senate would never pass it. This goes on and on like the media making a big noise about a bill that has been introduced, and then people get all excited about it being a done deal when the bill may have no chance of passing at all.
OK, on this. Since my friend has combat ptsd but is still working in Iraq, Afghanistan, wherever they send him, I think its important for people to feel hope. The suicide rate (especially for veterans with combat ptsd)is through the roof and people need to know that something is being done. Like replacing opioids, help for PTSD has been one of the areas that has been hard to crack. I didnt say that this was the Holy Grail, just that it is due to be approved by the FDA. OK, so anything involving government, insurance companies, Big Pharma can fail us. We're all adults.
Now seriously, since you feel so strongly about this, what do you think that we the public, or we forum people, a specialized segment CAN DO about speeding research and standards for all our issues. My brother is past board chair for the Cancer Society. They sure have kicked butt. So lets stop sitting on ours, thats what I want. We can go to Mars but we cant....you name it. Its ridiculous. By organizing on the local, state, national level, we could definitely make a noise. March on Washington, whatever.