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- From: bagg@ellis.uchicago.edu (matthew john baggott)
- Subject: Re: Ecstasy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.010326.29571@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:03:26 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.052411.27421@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> dstalder@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Darren/Torin/Who ever...) writes:
-
- >I am going to take hunks from the December '92 issue of Gnosis in an article
- >called "Ecstasy Revisited" by Bruce Eisner. He also has a book called
- >_Ecstasy:__The_MDMA_Story (Berkeley CA: Ronin Publishing, 1989). Any
- >typographic errors are mine. Hopefully this falls under fair use rules, this
- >is kinda educational use.
-
- Actually, many of the errors here are due to shoddy spelling checking by
- Gnosis.
-
- >p. 57: 3rd and 4th paragraphs, 1st column
- > The quesiton of MDMA's neutotoxicity was first raised in 1985, when George
- >Ricarte and Charles Shuster at the University of Chicago performed an
-
- Ricaurte and Schuster. The article also mispells fenfluramine. Jeesh.
-
- > More
- >important is a recent and still unpublished study by George Ricarte, in which
- >normal human doses were administered to primates every two weeks for four
- >months They showed no evidence of neurotoxicity.
-
- This is pretty compelling evidence.
-
- > With millions of people having taken MDMA over a 20-year period, some more
- >than several hundred times, there has never been a reported case of
- >MDMA-caused brain damage. Not one single case.
-
- This isn't a very good argument, since we wouldn't necessarily recognize
- such a case if it happened.
-
- > In our work with MDMA in psychotherapy so far, we have not observed
- > any negative effects, either of a psychological or physical kind.
- > The tremendous usefulness in healing severe psychological
- > disturbances outweighs the occasional stress to the organism though
- > these substances. [text elided]
-
- This is the opinion of hundred of experienced American therapists as well.
-
- >Think free!
- >--
- >Security Torin/Darren Stalder/Wolf
- > or __ Internet: dstalder@gmuvax2.gmu.edu PGP2 key available.
- > Freewill. \/ Bitnet: dstalder@gmuvax
- > Choose. ATTnet: 1-703-845-1000
- > Snail: 10310 Main St., Suite 110/Fairfax, VA/22030/USA
- >DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.
- >
-
- --Matt
-