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Dennis McKenna: Deceptive Psychedelics, Consciousness

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

CHAPTER

MDMA: A Designer Drug

As far as I know, MDMA is a designer drug. It's not something that's found as a derivative in a plant. In medicinal chemistry, often you take a natural compound and then you tweak it in various ways to see how it differs. What's cool about the psychedelics is there's only one way to investigate the structure activity,. You make all these derivatives, and then you bioassay them carefully. There's no, you know, animal tests are not going to tell you much.

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