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...energy, it enables you to carry out a longer and more strenuous workout. Normally manufactured by the liver, kidneys and pancreas, it's used by the muscles and other organs as an energy source. Still, there can be too much of a good thing. While creatine is a natural compound, created out of three amino acids, doctors are concerned by reported side effects from apparent overdoses, including dehydration, muscle and ligament tears, diarrhea and kidney failure...
...ecstasy pill most probably won't kill you or cure you. It is also unlike pretty much every other illicit drug. Ecstasy pills are (or at least they are supposed to be) made of a compound called methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA. It's an old drug: Germany issued the patent for it in 1914 to the German company E. Merck. Contrary to ecstasy lore, and there's tons of it, Merck wasn't trying to develop a diet drug when it synthesized MDMA. Instead, its chemists simply thought it could be a promising intermediary substance that might be used to help...
...that those appearances are horribly wrong, but others are more sanguine about MDMA's risks, given its benefits. For more than 15 years, Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, has been the world's most enthusiastic proponent of therapeutic MDMA use. He believes that the compound has a special ability to help people make sense of themselves and the world, that taking MDMA can lead people to inner truths. Independently wealthy, he uses his organization to promote his views and to "study ways to take drugs to open the unconscious...
...expect and desire him, once he's thrown off the trammels of the presidency, to become the great Casanova (at least the great Bubbanova) of the Western world (at least the West Coast), noshing on marzipan as he steeps with a bevy of hot-tub hootchies in his Malibu compound...
...Finally, Mills describes the gyrotron BlackLight is developing as a "reverse microwave" device that could be used to supply power cheaply to people's homes from a "clean" compound, thus eliminating the need for tradition fuel sources that pollute the environment...