Ecstasy: a synthetic history of MDMA

First patented by Merck in the early twentieth century, and reinvented by American chemists in the 1960s and 1970s, MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) has been characterised as a good-time party drug with a dark side. Ecstasy, ‘E’, ‘X’ or ‘molly’ is connected in contemporary parlance with EDM...

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Main Author: Clark, Peder (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Routledge handbook of intoxicants and intoxication
Year: 2023, Pages: 127-140
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