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...from its own employees, who fear their jobs will be lost unless President Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen resigns. Two weeks ago Imhausen's second-in-command took a drug overdose in an apparent suicide attempt. Now comes news that the firm is involved in the illegal production and sale of MDMA, a designer drug commonly known as "ecstasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: More Bad Chemistry | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

German prosecutors say Imhausen has supplied U.S. drug traffickers with 374 lbs. of MDMA, worth up to $27 million on the street. Two Americans and one Imhausen employee have been arrested. While Imhausen has admitted manufacturing the drug, company officials claim they were unaware the substance was illegal. Ironically, Imhausen could face stiffer penalties if convicted of breaking local narcotics laws than for helping a foreign country make deadly chemical weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: More Bad Chemistry | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...current favorite of college students is MDMA, better known simply as "Ecstasy." Described as the "LSD of the '80s," MDMA offers the euphoric rush of cocaine and some of the mind-expanding qualities of hallucinogens without the scary visual distortions. It may also cause permanent brain damage. Last year the Drug Enforcement Administration outlawed MDMA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next High | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...April 24-30 issue of The Crimson's weekly magazine, The What is To Be Done, the acronym for the drug 3,4 methylenedioxy-methamphetin was identified incorrectly as MDA. The correct acronym for the drug commonly known as ecstasy is MDMA, a less powerful hallucinogen than MDA. CORRECTION...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRECTION | 4/25/1986 | See Source »

Should they prevail, adherents would still have a problem. The formula for MDMA is available to anyone and cannot be repatented. Without the assurance of profits from exclusive production, no pharmaceutical company is likely to invest the millions of dollars it takes to test any drug for Government approval. Notes San Francisco Psychiatrist Jack Downing: "MDMA is an orphan that has nobody bidding to be its parent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Crackdown on Ecstasy | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

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