Ecstasy: Not a Big Health Risk? Word?
February 25th, 2009 by Perry
Word.
After years of apocryphal horror stories, a recent large-scale study showed long-term, the effects of MDMA aren’t really that bad for you.
The UK Advisory Panel on the Misuse of Drugs found the results showed that mild memory loss is a common occurrence but the most harmful effect seems to be how someone’s system will react to the drug, with some cases even a small MDMA dosage leading to death from exhaustion or poisoning.
The study argues this is an extremely small minority, as millions of people take the drug every year in the UK and there were 30 deaths linked to the drug last year. The review also called for a rescheduling of the drug by class into a lesser category with cannabis.
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Marin County Concerned About Molly
January 26th, 2009 by Perry
A new, purer form of ecstacy, or a knock-off of the drug depending on who you ask, has law enforcement officials concerned in NoCal.
Called Molly, the drug is relatively new, and the biggest concerns stem from how little is actually known about the dug and its effects.
Nicknamed Molly supposedly because it is a molecular variation of MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstacy, an article in the Marin Independent-Journal said the drug known as Molly is found as piperazine and a stimulant called BZP, or N-benzylpiperazine; or as pure MDMA.
The drug causes euphoria and hallucinations, but can also cause anxiety, organ failure and death. The cost of the drug is about $15 per capsule, which is the most common way to consume it.
