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Ecstasy shows promise in treating PTSD, lame dance parties

ad222_glowsticks.jpg Nobody cheer leads their drug of choice more than ravers -- according to them, your ticket to complete and utter bliss is only a dolphin-shaped pill away. Generally, I have trouble following the advice of a 24-year-old adult dressed like an infant who survived a clown explosion, but maybe they really are on to something. The first government-sanctioned experiments in two decades into the potential for psychedelic drugs to treat psychiatric disorders shows that the active ingredient in ecstasy, MDMA, can be quite effective at healing post-traumatic stress disorder.

If more research backs this up, I guess we should start handing out pacifiers and rainbow jumpsuits to soldiers as soon as they step off the plane from Iraq.

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