Ecstasy & Agony: A 34-year-old with progressive Parkinson’s Disease discovers that MDMA (Ecstasy) has an astonishing effect on his body, relieving his Parkinson’s symptoms. This observation challenges the medical community and pharmacological Calvinists everywhere and is now being studied in hopes of generating new treatment options for Parkinson’s Disease. BBC And Tamara Straus thinks the drug’s cultural significance may be far greater; wondering if Ecstasy isn’t the drug of the millenium, “a postmodern cure in
a pill, that… eases spiritual emptiness and rancorous
individualism; … a chemical salve for
everything from alienation and depression to the
lack of spirituality and community.” AlterNet