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September 06, 2003
By Rick Weiss, Washington Post Staff Writer
Source: Washington Post

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University who last year published a frightening and controversial report suggesting that a single evening's use of the illicit drug ecstasy could cause permanent brain damage and Parkinson's disease are retracting their research in its entirety, saying the drug they used in their experiments was not ecstasy after all.

The retraction, to be published in next Friday's issue of the journal Science, has reignited a smoldering and sometimes angry debate over the risks and benefits of the drug, also known as MDMA.

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Report of Ecstasy Drug's Great Risks Is Retracted
September 06, 2003
By Donald G. McNeil Jr.
Source: New York Times

A leading scientific journal yesterday retracted a paper it published last year saying that one night's typical dose of the drug Ecstasy might cause permanent brain damage.

The monkeys and baboons in the study were not injected with Ecstasy but with a powerful amphetamine, said the journal, Science magazine. The retraction was submitted by the team at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine that did the study.

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Hate to waste a rant...

Only the sick puritanicals and profiteers keep this somedrug war going!

The RAVE Ax was designed for hempfests.
Fascism and grazing sheople feeding on Fauxnewz dittoads corporate propaganda. Billions of tax paid profits perpetuating the Ganjawar and keeping Ganja competition off the free trade market. Censorships been tried each year since prop 215 emerged. The Meth Act banned talk of hemp on the internet. Would they lie? Would they murder? Just for a multi billion dollar business? Enron ethics makes it all too obvious. Toking Ganja ain't the problem or even a major factor in the equation. Its simple corporatism. Profits on fossil fools pesticides and chemical adulterations Ganja/hemp doesn't require. Profits on the Prison and the paraphernalia needed for the 2 million inmates. Most in for non violent drug offences not by coincidence. From the 12 pounds of chemical grain for each pound of exported meat as their lobbiest buy hemp seed laws. Illegal nutrition!. Chemically processed trees and paper and cotton using tons of chemicals hemp doesn't need. The booze and pharmaceuticals fearing something that grows free in the herb garden. All the bored soccer moms and grannies saving the kids with DARE Partnership mind molestations, while they're raped in a juvi holding cell busted for possessing what Klintoon did, inspite of inhaling. Copshops and DEAths bloated budgets and all the trinkets each one needs is sold by someone, to keep the gravy train WoD going. The RAVE puts the fear of Ashcrofts god into anyone holding a hempfest or Ganja education gathering like at Rainbow Farm. 250 grand fine to the promoters if someone gets busted. A lesser evil than what Tom and Rollie got. Demonkrat Bidens RAVE rider based on the lies about XTC the same as they've done with Ganja and THC.
Peace, Love and Liberty or the Treason of D.E.A.th!
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