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Could MDMA Be Medicine? with Rachel Nuwer

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The History of MDMA

MDMA was invented on Christmas Eve, 1912 by the German pharmaceutical company, Merck. They were making a blood clotting agent and MDMA was just this chemical intermediary to get to that product they wanted. It's so divergent from how MDMA or ecstasy was portrayed to me as a kid in health class. And could you like learn it to use it to learn a language at a later age? Really? Yeah. You can finally learn Spanish or whatever.

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