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I don't have a citation to hand, only my recent discussions about this, from someone that should equally know what they are talking about: The neurotoxicity ha
by aaren 12y ago
I don't have a citation to hand, only my recent discussions about this, from someone that should equally know what they are talking about:
The neurotoxicity has been demonstrated in rats, but at a dose that would be fatal in humans. Rats have better tolerance of the effect that mdma has on thermo-regulation and this allows the neurotoxic effect to manifest.
If you gave a dose to a human that was sufficient to kill nerve cells, you would kill the human.
Like I said, no citation to hand (someone else maybe??), but this is food for thought I think.
- praxeologist 12y agoThis can happen that some particular difference between species makes inferring risk of a molecule inaccurate. The real LD50 of nicotine is probably a good bit higher than thought now, but we can't just go poisoning people to really find out so we rely on animal models. I suspect that MDMA and related are somewhat physically harmful but is it more neurotoxic and has a greater addictive potential than legal drugs like alcohol? I don't think so.
- cnp 12y agoyup.