beings, especially when differences in body mass and surface area are taken into account by interspecies scaling methods" (Eisner,Bruce pg145). He stated on his report that MDMA does cause brain damage in primates and the results are easily translated to humans. Although once this report came out MDMA was totally demonized by Ricaurte and the media. Ricaurte came out recently and totally retracted his results from the studies he had performed. "We write to retract our report "Severe dopaminergic neurotoxicity in primates after a common recreational dose regimen of MDMA ("ecstasy")", following our recent discovery that the drug used to treat all but one animal in that report came from a bottle that contained (+)-methamphetamine instead of the intended drug, (±) MDMA. Notably, (+)-methamphetamine would be expected to produce the same pattern of combined dopaminergic/serotonergic neurotoxicity as that seen in the animals reported in our paper" (Peroutka, Stephen J pg 157). Due to this flaw in Ricuarte's study many have started to support the minimizing of the laws against MDMA, including the legalization in order for it to be used for medical purposes. As stated before the FDA has now approved a study of MDMA on actual humans in order to try to make it legal to use for medical purposes. I believe that this will make MDMA a very useful drug in the treatment of post traumatic disorders. Doctors will able to use MDMA in their practices. I also strongly believe that by lowering the penalties against MDMA that it will dramatically decrease the harm against users that will continue using MDMA as a recreational drug. MDMA I believe one day will become legal. It will very shortly become the drug used the most by psychiatrists all over the world. Unfortunately I also believe that MDMA will continue to grow in popularity among the young generation

ikely they were seeking new chemical weapons or new interrogation tools. These tests are the first known evidence that MDMA was psychoactive. In 1965 a chemist by the name of Alexander Shulgin synthesized MDMA predicting that it was psychoactive. At this point he did not try the substance on himself. In 1967 a student at the University of California reported to Shulgin that he had tried MDMA. Shulgin then tried the drug himself and was totally amazed by the substance. After his first experience with MDMA Shulgin stated what he felt after taking 120 milligrams of the substance. "I feel absolutely clean inside, and there

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