[HN Gopher] CIA experiments, Mormon ravers and reformed racists:...
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       CIA experiments, Mormon ravers and reformed racists: the untold
       history of MDMA
        
       Author : rntn
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2023-06-27 18:39 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | chiefalchemist wrote:
       | > "A new book, I Feel Love, explores the rollicking history of
       | the 90s club drug turned 21st-century therapeutic treatment"
       | 
       | To clarify a bit, MDMA original intention was for therapy.
       | However, it was quickly off-scripted (so to speak) as a club
       | drug. There was a time in the mid to late 80's (in the USA) where
       | MDMA was legal because, at the time, the way the drug laws were
       | written, it wasn't illegal.
       | 
       | MDMA is simply returning to its roots.
        
         | morkalork wrote:
         | I thought the film Ecstasy Rising covered that bit of history
         | in a pretty fair and even handed manner for the time it came
         | out. Most TV news coverage of mdma around that era was baseless
         | fear mongering.
        
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