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Could MDMA Be Medicine? with Rachel Nuwer

Factually! with Adam Conover

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MDMA and the War on Drugs

Rachel newer: MDMA was known at least when I was a kid as a party drug. After it was criminalized in the US, it sort of jumped ship and moved on to Ibiza,. The DJ Paul Oakenfold discovered house music off the coast of Spain with his friends after they took MDMA. Raves were just impromptu parties that would pop up all over the UK. They were just a way to keep the party going because everybody was rolling on ecstasy.

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