“These are not just benign, fun drugs, they carry serious short term and long term dangers.” Many compare this “ecstasy era” (Randall, 1992b) to the crack-cocaine problem of the 80’s. But those like Leshner who fight on the war against drugs overstate these dangers occasionally- and users usually understate them. The main reason ecstasy is so fascinating, and dangerous to antidrug crusaders, is that it appears to be a safer drug than heroin and cocaine, at least in the short run, and appears to have more therapeutic benefits. Ecstasy is an interesting drug for its history, its action on the brain, and the culture and myth that it has created. But as with many recreational drugs and drugs of addiction, the consequences of the "enjoyable high" are plentiful and severe. More experimentation with human subjects is necessary to gain a clearer picture to all the effects of MDMA on the human body. Still, rave enthusiasts claim that raves are still about the music and the dancing and that drugs aren’t the driven force. Music or medication, the rave trend doesn’t seem to be losing any steam and could go strongly throughout the millennium. ...
