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A large proportion of young people, especially in Britain,

are regular users of the drug Ecstasy,Adam,X or MDMA for a simple reason: it provides them with access to an experience which they value. Yet the majority of first-time users have no access toreliable information about the drug and rely on folklore forguidance, while little serious attention is paid to the potential uses and benefits of MDMA.

MDMA was patented as long ago as 1913 by the German company merck. Rumour has it that the drug was sold as a slimming pill alongwith comic descriptions of its strange side effects, although it wasnever marketed and the patent doesn't mention uses. The next time itcame to light was in 1953 when the US army tested a number of drugsfor military applications - again, folklore says it was tried as a

truth drug but there is no evidence for this.

MDMA was patented as long ago as 1913 by the German company Merck. Rumour has it that the drug was sold as a slimming pill alongwith comic descriptions of its strange side effects, although it wasnever marketed and the patent doesn't mention uses. The next time it came to light was in 1953 when the US army tested a number of drugs for military applications - again, folklore says it was tried as a

truth drug but there is no evidence for this.

The father of MDMA - or 'stepfather' as he describes himself is Alexander Shulgin. After obtaining a PhD in biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, Shulgin got a job as a research chemist with Dow Chemicals, for whom he invented a profitable insecticide. As a reward, the company gave him a free hand and his own lab. Having had an exciting experience on Mescaline, Shulgin used the opportunity...