What are the long-term side effects of Ecstasy use?
That is still sort of up for debate. There are plenty of people doing research on chronic ecstasy users. But the problem with chronic ecstasy users is they tend to take other drugs and they tend to have had methamphetamine or speed, because they’re not getting pure MDMA. So it’s really hard to do that kind of research. There’s one study where they gave oral MDMA to squirrel monkeys. Every two weeks they kept giving them oral, for I don’t know if it was four or five separate administrations. And they showed that there was no brain damage at all. But in other studies where they’re injecting high doses of MDMA repeatedly into monkeys or baboons, they are showing brain damage. So it’s not, you know, it’s certainly safer to use less and to take it less frequently. But I don’t think anyone can tell you for sure what’s safe. In terms of how often or how much.
