Entactogens
30Jul2003 Filed under: LinkageYou’re in a love puddle. You’re smiling. You’re high on Ecstasy. You touch your friend’s hair. Wow. You can’t stop touching it. Her hair is incredibly soft. You keep smiling. Now it’s a few years later. You take E again. You grind your teeth, the hangover lasts a week. It’s no fun. What happened?
Part 1 of a two-part series I can’t wait to finish reading.
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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leblanc
July 30th, 2003 at 11:21 am
hahah. *exactly*. the fun went out of it for me soon after it started, and i’m never taking that crack again!
leblanc
July 30th, 2003 at 11:45 am
ok, well, i just read the whole first half of the article, and i have to say that although it is fairly well written, i don’t get the point. it’s a bit scattered, and it seems the author is seriously glossing over a lot of the side effects and permantent damage it’s done to people - mentioning the post-x depression but not mentioning that the depression could last for months, or years….. mentioning the seizures but not mentioning the number of kids who died from them…… i dunno. i’m just jaded i guess. perhaps the 2nd half will address the longer term issues.
symbiant
July 30th, 2003 at 2:54 pm
That horrible icky feeling is a direct result of our bodies reminding us that we were too young to know better in 1989, and that with the information that is available to us today, that we would be crazy to even handle that brain-crack.
Ariel
July 31st, 2003 at 7:15 am
Leblanc and symbiant, I think you’ll find that part two deals more with the long term affects and issues with the chemical, including depression, tremors, and death. A little patience does a jaded reader good, Amy.
I also appreciate the article’s discussion of MDMA’s potential to benefit those dealing with post-traumatic stress. I have a friend who’s wife was dealing with severe PTSD after surviving a cessna crash in which everyone else on the plane died, and it was MDMA that pulled her out her post-traumatic mindframe.
PS: I love that the article quotes someone as saying her friends thought she was “harshing their mellow.” That’s one of my favorite phrases, and I probably overuse it.
dori
August 2nd, 2003 at 2:19 pm
ha ha! god i linked to that article too…
and i’m also big on “harsh my mellow” - my old roomate had a pretty interesting variation on it that i also abuse far too frequently - “squishing my trip” (aka trip squisher).