Report of Ecstasy Drug's Great Risks Is Retracted- NYT

[andyjackson1828]

A leading scientific journal yesterday retracted a paper it published last year saying that one night's typical dose of the drug Ecstasy might cause permanent brain damage.

The monkeys and baboons in the study were not injected with Ecstasy but with a powerful amphetamine, said the journal, Science magazine.

The retraction was submitted by the team at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine that did the study.

A medical school spokesman called the mistake "unfortunate" but said that Dr. George A. Ricaurte, the researcher who made it, was "still a faculty member in good standing whose research is solid and respected."


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/06/health/06ECST.html


So they used these phony results to pass the Anti-Rave Law.


Joe Biden makes me sick!

[Terwilliger]

1. yes they did

NIDA also requested MDMA from this Triangle Research Center in NC...how easy would it have been to encourage the supplier to mislabel the vials so that their "study" would achieve the desired results?

It wouldn't surprise me one whit.

And the Rave Act has already busted up gatherings promoting medical and recreational marijuana.

Time to go :nuke: u-lar

[dutchdemocrat]

2. Holland is talking about legalizing it to control it better.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=172257