1. Marijuana debate
... air. The other drug at issue is the designer drug ecstasy. Ecstasy or MDMA was created by a German pharmaceutical company called Merck in 1912 (Campbell). Merck received a patent in 1913 but they never placed it on the open market. MDMA then vanished from society for approximately 38 years. When ... in the 1950's the United States Army trialed the drug, allegations say as a truth serum (Campbell). Ecstasy the reemerged in the 1960's when a psychedelic biochemist by the name of Alexander Shulgin successfully synthesized MDMA and tried it on himself. He ... stated that MDMA breaks down the...
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