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Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.psychoactives
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From: rjesse@oracle.uucp (Robert Jesse)
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Subject: MDMA: Note on using MDMA many times
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Message-ID: <1994Feb26.224313.27327@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 22:43:13 GMT
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at Oracle Corporation. The opinions expressed are those
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of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.
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Here is some material that was recently submitted for inclusion in a future
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revision of the MDMA FAQ - I thought it may be of interest to some people
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sooner rather than later. If you have any corrections or constructive
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comments, you could send them to me <rnj%lila@us.oracle.com> and to Jon Taylor,
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the author and maintainer of the MDMA FAQ <jmt0165@u.cc.utah.edu>. Thanks.
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ps: note that these sections of text are not intended to stand alone. the FAQ
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contains important information - dosing, contraindications, etc. - that is not
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replicated here.
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Note on Using MDMA Many Times:
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Most users of MDMA who have taken the drug many times report that after a
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certain number of sessions, varying by person from a few to a few dozen, the
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desirable effects of the drug are no longer as pronounced. Said one, "it loses
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its magic." Another person who used MDMA perhaps a dozen times (separated by
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weeks to months) noted the dropoff, waited three years (!), tried an ordinary
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dose of high-quality MDMA again, and found that the annoyance of the physical
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side effects outweighed the greatly diminished positive effects. He has sadly
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given up the drug. Others who have had fifty or more MDMA sessions still find
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them to be worthwhile on balance.
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This MDMA effect dropoff might be explained by a psychological mechanism:
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loss of novelty (though people who have MDMA dropoff generally report that
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there is not a similar dropoff in the effects of other psychedelics with which
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they are equally or more experienced, e.g. LSD and DMT). Or it might be caused
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by lasting neurological "changes" to the brain from repeated sessions, the
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prior state of the changed structures being necessary for ecstatic MDMA
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experiences. It is a complex, as-yet-unanswered question whether such changes,
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if they happen, are best regarded as harmful, neutral, or beneficial.
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If there is a lesson here, perhaps it is to spend your first six, twelve,
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or fifty sessions wisely and cherish them. Later sessions may never be as
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great.
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