I am thinking, put this in the drinking water.... Show on every TV all the re-runs of the campaign promises of whoever was in office so everyone remembers what they saw... Nobody remembers what they were promised.....
No, Ecstasy (as it became known on the streets) is usually a mix of methamphetamine and MDMA. The mixture can vary but MDMA alone is not an upper. People abusing MDMA can't achieve the effects they want without the extra dopamine flush.
MDMA has a very low addiction profile and has had a horrible life of propaganda and misinformation thrown atop of it. MAPS is actually researching, with promising results, the medicinal effects of it with PSTD.
MDMA can been used in therapeutic sessions (i.e. marriage therapy) with staggering results. End of life treatment and acceptance (i.e. cancer) has been shown to be wonderful for couples wishing to "get everything out", so to speak.
MDMA isn't a drug you take to have wild manic sex and dance. Ecstasy is. MDMA is a drug you take with your wife once and a while to open the floodgates of emotion and talk about any little thing that could possibly be bothering you or hindering the relationship without fear of repercussion. It's a drug you can take to come to terms with dying and leaving your partner and kids while having a long, open talk with them. It's a chemical that breaks down your inhibitions and leaves you able to study what emotionally ails you without the anxiety that usually coattails along.
MDMA is a medicine and we need to start seeing it as that. Sure it has it's possible downsides (abuse potential, neurotoxicity) but we deal with these downsides with any drug we prescribe. We need to give these tools back to therapists so we can stop this cascade of emotional fuckery that we keep passing on generation after generation.
Why should we only focus on treating peoples physical symptoms and not their emotional state as well? I'm not speaking of mental illness, either. Along comes a drug that gives great power and insight into the emotional state and we illegalize it because a group of kids are abusing it. We need to pull our heads out of our asses and realize that kids are abusing every prescription drug that will give their head a tingle. We can't stop it, we can only attempt to educate and curb it.
MDMA is definitely an upper, both in the sense of being a stimulant, and elevating mood. You're correct that street varieties are now mostly mixed with amphetamines.
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I'll note that I wasn't referring to abuse in the sense of substance abuse. I meant morally questionable medical and non-medical uses.
It's a slight upper. Compared to it's amphetamine analogs, it's very weak.
I'd agree with you on use, but I'm more liberal when it comes to these things. All medicines can have questionable medical/non-medical uses. Take alcohol for example. The real date rape drug, as opposed to the scapegoat GHB/GBL.
>MDMA is a drug you take with your wife once and a while to open the floodgates of emotion and talk about any little thing that could possibly be bothering you or hindering the relationship without fear of repercussion.
Yes this is true you can actually get pure MDMA and it's not x, and you do use for different effects. I guess I interpreted the OP as "this has the potential for abuse" as in "selective memory wiping" or some other SF context you can assume from this misleading title. I have no problem with recreational "abuse".
Yes, I do have a problem. We all have emotional troubles, some more than others. I don't see how your point does anything but make noise and attempts a "one-up" of sorts.
They aren't talking about MDMA. That was mentioned as an example of a drug which is used similarly (but doesn't actually erase memories). They are talking about PKMzeta inhibitors.
