I bet it's still not good for you

[andrewducker]

Apparently Ecstacy doesn't give you Parkinsons after all, this story says.

Researchers horrified to find they had used a mislabeled bottle in an experiment retracted their findings on Friday, saying they had failed to show the drug Ecstasy can cause a certain pattern of brain damage.

Their original report, published in September 2002, said they had found Parkinson's disease-like damage in the brains of monkeys injected with Ecstasy. or MDMA.

"The authors recently discovered that the drug used to treat all but one animal in that report came from a bottle that contained methamphetamine instead of the intended drug, MDMA ('Ecstasy')," the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which published the study in its journal Science, said in a statement...

Of course, it still fucks up your seratonin levels, and I'm remarkable attached to mine...

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Given the way that the US government has come down on Ecstasy, I'm wondering if the switch was really accidental. I also doubt that it's worse than alcohol wrt general bad affects on you. Almost all recreational chemicals are bad for you, the key is only using those that do not do permanent damage (IOW avoid using speed or crack).