Someone finally realized we can have our medicine and have fun too. One day we will not have to wade through three pages of possible side effects to get the treatment we need. Instead, it may have side benefits.
No, that's not what I was saying. I'm saying that the future of drugs should include positive side effects, benefits. Right now anything positive in a drug is considered recreational and avoided completely. Hence the perfect drug in this day and age eliminates disease but is otherwise completely neutral.
The researchers, in collaboration with the University of Western Australia, have chemically re-engineered ecstasy by taking some atoms away and putting new ones in their place.
That sounds like a nod to Mitch Hedburg's line about fixing one of his jokes...
Actually, at least in the US and UK, "ecstasy" usually refers to pills of MDMA which have been cut with some amount (50% or so) of meth or a similar upper. Pure MDMA (much safer) is more commonly referred to as molly to avoid confusion. The two formulations are very different.
