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Ecstacy

Science

Ecstatic States

Can an illegal drug heal PTSD?

Lessley Anderson The Verge Apr 2014 Permalink

There's Something About Molly

How a supposedly safe party drug turned lethal.

Michael Blanding Boston Globe Jan 2014 15min Permalink

Arts Music

Electronic Dance Music’s Love Affair With Ecstasy

How both the drugs and the music have evolved together.

P. Nash Jenkins The Atlantic Sep 2013 20min Permalink

Arts Tech Music

How The Internet Transformed The American Rave Scene

How a musical subculture evolved alongside a technological subculture:

Rave's rise mirrors the Web's in many ways. Both mixed rhetorical utopianism with insider snobbery. Both were future-forward "free spaces" with special appeal to geeks and wonks.

Michaelangelo Matos NPR Jul 2011 15min Permalink

Science

Dr. Ecstasy

Sasha Shulgin, a former DOW chemist who now lives a quiet life as a pensioner outside the Bay Area, is responsible for the discovery of the majority of psychedelic compounds currently known.

Drake Bennett New York Times Magazine Jan 2005 15min Permalink