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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Ecstasy (Drugs: the Straight Facts)


* Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
* Number Of Pages: 112
* Publication Date: 2003-12
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0791076334
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780791076330
* Binding: Hardcover

WHAT IS ECSTASY?
In 1912 the German pharmaceutical company Merck first synthesized and patented a compound called 3,4 methylenedioxymetham phetamine,or MDMA for short.At the time,many new chemicals were synthesized in the hopes that they might be useful in future research. MDMA, as an amphetamine derivative, had potential as a diet drug. However, like many other compounds, research on MDMA was soon abandoned by Merck. Many pharmaceutical companies at that time applied for and received patents on everything they synthesized, just in case the compound was ever found to be useful or in case they ever decided to do more research on the compound. Many of these chemical products, like MDMA, did not show enough promise to be investigated further, and thus research was abandoned.

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