Is It Illegal to Synthesize Mdma?

i'm very curious about that time period when people were making mdma in these semi underground gray market labs. It wasn't explicitly illegal, because there was no federal analogue act and it wasn't a controlled substance, but and there was a emerging demand for it. And you yourself say that even though it wasn't illegal, there was something a little bit off putting about going right to industrial manufacture of the psychoactive drug. Could you tell me a little bit more about that period and what was going on? Sure i can.