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Pedantry man is here to save the day! MDMA was first synthesised and patented by Merck in the 1910s as a chemical precursor. It was researched by various peopl

Pedantry man is here to save the day! MDMA was first synthesised and patented by Merck in the 1910s as a chemical precursor. It was researched by various people mainly in animals as an analogue to dopamine/noradrenaline at various times between then and the 60s. Very limited recreational use already started happening, possibly in the late 60s, certainly by the early 70s. Shulgin tried it mid 70s and also made and shared the drug with some of his friends. Some of those were interested in using the drug therapeutically.

scns 3y ago
Kaptain Killjoy, there is a dead Possum in your parking spot, what are we gonna do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYp2p2Migis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYp2p2Migis
superkuh 3y ago
If you're really pedantry man why didn't you click through the main wikipedia MDMA article you copied from word for word to the very large, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA-assisted_psychotherapy#Society_and_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA-assisted_psychotherapy#So... ? >MDMA was first synthesized by German pharmaceutical company Merck KGaA in 1912 as an intermediate in the synthesis of another compound. Its psychoactive effects were not noted until the early 1960s. In the 1960s and 1970s, the drug was used in psychotherapy, although it was not an approved drug and no clinical trials had been performed. The drug was studied in Switzerland for use in individual, couple, and group therapies until 1993, when the Swiss Ministry of Health withdrew permission to use MDMA and LSD by psychiatrists due to concerns about lack of research methodology. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6435835 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6435835 >In 1986, MDMA was classed as a Schedule 1 drug by the United Nations according to its Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 due to its high potential for abuse, and most research was stopped. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7218633 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7218633
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
  I didn't say you were wrong, just adding more information, and I was doing it from memory. Looks like I did OK, but also missed a bunch of stuff. I have a really good memory but I trust it way too much some times. But thanks for the further information! I actually didn't know Switzerland kept it going until 90s. I thought all research ended in the 80s There's actually a mistake in that wiki article though. If you look at the source, it does in fact say Shulgin's friend Zeff was the first to start using it therapeutically since 1976. It says nothing about therapeutic use in the 60s, though it does mention LSD, which was used in the 60s before it was banned.

scns 3y ago

Kaptain Killjoy, there is a dead Possum in your parking spot, what are we gonna do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYp2p2Migis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYp2p2Migis

superkuh 3y ago

If you're really pedantry man why didn't you click through the main wikipedia MDMA article you copied from word for word to the very large, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA-assisted_psychotherapy#Society_and_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA-assisted_psychotherapy#So... ? >MDMA was first synthesized by German pharmaceutical company Merck KGaA in 1912 as an intermediate in the synthesis of another compound. Its psychoactive effects were not noted until the early 1960s. In the 1960s and 1970s, the drug was used in psychotherapy, although it was not an approved drug and no clinical trials had been performed. The drug was studied in Switzerland for use in individual, couple, and group therapies until 1993, when the Swiss Ministry of Health withdrew permission to use MDMA and LSD by psychiatrists due to concerns about lack of research methodology. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6435835 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6435835 >In 1986, MDMA was classed as a Schedule 1 drug by the United Nations according to its Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 due to its high potential for abuse, and most research was stopped. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7218633 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7218633

mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
I didn't say you were wrong, just adding more information, and I was doing it from memory. Looks like I did OK, but also missed a bunch of stuff. I have a really good memory but I trust it way too much some times. But thanks for the further information! I actually didn't know Switzerland kept it going until 90s. I thought all research ended in the 80s There's actually a mistake in that wiki article though. If you look at the source, it does in fact say Shulgin's friend Zeff was the first to start using it therapeutically since 1976. It says nothing about therapeutic use in the 60s, though it does mention LSD, which was used in the 60s before it was banned.