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Did you know:

• Ecstasy was used in the field of psychotherapy for 25 years prior to being made illegal in 1985. Therapists were astounded at its ability to aid in healing traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and as a general tool for self-realization.
• When the government decided to make MDMA illegal, a federal judge delivered a Finding-of-Fact stating that Ecstasy belonged in Schedule III. The DEA ignored the research and the FoF with their typical arrogance and made it Schedule I, where it remains today.
• Although the media and the government alike make many wild claims about Ecstasy-related deaths, most of these are fictitious or imagined. A very small number (you can count them on one hand) of MDMA-related deaths have occurred, and most of those are caused by overheating or mixing MDMA with drugs such as MAO inhibitors. By this account, Ecstasy is quite a bit less dangerous than activities such as downhill skiing (estimated 50 deaths a year) or taking aspirin (estimated 500 deaths a year).
• Use of Ecstasy has seen unprecedented growth. Based on pill seizure statistics, we estimate that approximately 20 million people have used the drug! That's one in ten American adults.

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