Word: mdma
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...Readers looking for enlightenment about E may be best served elsewhere. In fact, Aitkenhead takes great pains to avoid describing the physical effects of mdma, and much of the book is about searching for hug drugs rather than actually gulping them. As a travel journal, however, The Promised Land is a nice enough lark. It might not have the rich depth of Charles Nicholl's Borderlines, the hapless humor of William Sutcliffe's Are You Experienced, or the sublime poetry of Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg in their Yage Letters. Still, if you're totally spent on a beach this summer...
...sanctioned a study of methylenedioxymethamphetamine, better known as MDMA, or ecstasy, as a possible treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. Once it is approved by a review board at a research facility, the study will mark the first time in three decades that the government has allowed researchers to give a psychedelic drug to subjects who have never taken it, which suggests the FDA doesn't think taking ecstasy is too risky, at least as part of a carefully monitored experiment. That puts the agency at odds with the Drug Enforcement Administration, which classifies ecstasy as unsafe even under medical...
...ecstasy, or at least something in it, has cheered the Manchester duo. "The reason we're excited by Tim's case is that we've spent between us the best part of 50 years trying to understand movement disorders, and the effect we see in him with mdma [ecstasy's scientific name] is the biggest we've ever seen," says Brotchie. "Ecstasy on its own isn't going to be a useful treatment. But the potential may now be there to develop completely new drugs for Parkinson...
...they who helped popularize MDMA--a signal event in the history of recreational drugs. Ecstasy is easily the biggest advance since LSD. It changed not only the party world but the shaman world, where it was used by psychologists who believed it had therapeutic value. Since MDMA was banned in 1986, scientists have looked for compounds that have the same effects without damaging neurotransmitters, as MDMA can. They haven't had much success...
...today's nonmedical drug research tends to focus on new uses for old substances. That effort is led by Richard Doblin, who runs the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies out of his Belmont, Mass., home. Founded the year MDMA was outlawed, the association uses its $530,000 yearly budget to assist scientists who, with government permission, study the risks and benefits of a wide variety of nonmedical uses for psychedelic drugs and marijuana. Such research is highly political, however, and it can take years for a research protocol to be approved...