Also known as Adam, E, and "the love drug," "Ecstasy" has almost become synonymous with thoughts of "druggie teenagers" dancing at all-night raves (thank you media). Almost everyone has seen an ecstasy report in the news or born witness to the latest dateline episode on how Ecstasy is becoming the newest destructive trend amongst teenagers. With all the defective information traversing cyberspace, the newspapers, television, and virtually any other medium by which one can learn about issues such as Ecstasy, it is difficult to decipher what is true.

Simply spoken, when Ecstasy (pure MDMA) is ingested for the first time, it will astonish the user and make them euphoric for a few hours. Afterwards, many people claim to become temporarily depressed. When taken in large enough dosages it becomes neurotoxic (meaning that it kil

MDMA was first synthesized and patented by Merck pharmaceuticals in 1912 and patented in 1914, but it wasn't until the mid 1970s that articles related to its psychoactivity began showing up in scholarly journals. In the late '70s and early '80s MDMA was used as a psychotherapeutic tool and started to become available on the street. Its growing popularity led to it being made illegal in the United States in 1985 and its popularity has continued to increase since then.

Experimenters describe the effects of Ecstasy as a connecting of one's self with the world. They say that Ecstasy is about understanding everyone and everything else. It allows you to feel and to see for the first time. Often they say that they love everything. Many people argue against this by saying the love you feel while on Ecstasy is not real. This love is false because it is drug-induced. Therefore, because false love only confuses one as to what real love means, the Ecstasy-love is not good.

Will Ecstasy become the drug of the new generation? Probably not, but that does not mean its use will not grow. It is more likely to become a drug used rarely, and by many in the drug circle, than to become the replacement for whatever drug is currently most popular. For those who think Ecstasy is a fun recreational drug: remember it often contains other, more harmful substances (PMA sold as MDMA has killed several) and MDMA itself has been proven to have negative effects on mental stability. For those who think Ecstasy is evil because a dose great enough can be neurotoxic: remember it is possible to overdose and die on Tylenol.

Those who have done many drugs are more likely to hold the first view. People who have taken Ecstasy and not many other drugs are more likely to hold the second view. Liberal

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