Is it possible to do this, today, anywhere in the world (without getting into a study, which seems hard, especially in another country)? I am looking for help for somebody close to me.
The issue is that they may or may not be actual MDMA - and the unscrupulous label general amphetamines as either molly or MDMA and people unfamiliar dont know it....
The clinical studies should, presumably, be also, setting a standard for the purity, dosage, quality etc around the tested substance...
So to go "off grid" as it were, to test this has risks..
That being said - the efficacy of any therapy session, even when the introspection and emotional response is deliberately induced, could still result in benefits.
The problem with any drugs, beit alcohol, weed, whatever - is that environment (situational and historically) play a large part in the response.
The mental state can be associative to a great degree, and as such - if one has had a tool such as MDMA in the past - but in a really poor environment, the response could be poor.
Read up on it - but never trust anything off the street to be what they claim...
That being said, I am pretty sure I can find the drug, I know some people that I can trust. Preferably it would be administered by the therapist, though.
Thanks, too, for the caution. I have already found someone in my native country who is a psychologist who also does AI stuff with Tensorflow, so I trust them already. ;)
"87% of “Molly” analyzed by the DEA between 2009 and 2013 contained 0% MDMA, instead mostly containing “bath salts” like methylone.3"
I’d venture to guess that half the people buying MDMA-less molly would say the same thing.
If your friend isn’t sitting in the lab while it’s being made or not doing mass spec on it the product, it’s all someone’s word.
This is one of the great tragedies of the war on drugs: UN member states are bound to the convention under law, so until this unjust (and unscientific) barrier is torn down it will always be dangerous and difficult to acquire for therapeutic purposes. But things, thankfully, are changing for the better.
You can mess up your serotonin levels for an extended period of time through MDMA abuse.
I guess that might be a direct effect rather than a side effect, but that doesn't seem to be your point.
You can do that with SSRIs too. You can also kill yourself with opioids. The problem is that MDMA isn't even available by prescription. The first I heard of it was on a TV special covering its use in therapy sessions - that was in the 1980s prior to the whole ecstasy fad. Why is this useful substance totally illegal, while much more harmful and addictive things are legal, available, and causing problems?
But abuse of anything can be harmful, that's kind of a defining qualification of the whole concept of abuse, isn't it?
No, really, I am interested. Please share. Thanks.
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