Havent had a chance to listen to this yet (as am at work!) but looks interesting –
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/pip/janp7/
Click the listen again button…..
Ahh nice one Siggers! I was gutted I missed that. Forgot about the wonders of t’Internet.
Blimey that’s a good listen, very interesting. They should have done test on this years ago as with any other psychoactive or drug that is banned.
Thing is with the memory debate, how can you tell if there has been any affect with MDMA use or not? You would need to go to a parallel universe and ask your self some questions and do a comparison on yourself!
Have always liked the saying ‘I have forgotten more than you will ever know’
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OK as for memory here’s a personal experience
the peak of my MDMA use was from 1991-1995 and that was all the proper “back in the day” pills.
I was in Uni for a bit from 1990-1992 but didn’t really want to be there and didn’t stay there much longer after the uni authorities realised what sort of stuff I was sending over the Internet (just info on drugs and raves, just like here but in text form only) (it wasn’t authorised for public use until 1994)
Anyway back then the WWW was all text based and you used Unix command shells and an editor called vi.. compared to todays computers it was rather complicated TBH…
Anyway despite my techie background 1992 was the last time I seriously used any Unix-based computers….
Fast foward to 2002 and I was round my mates house in Reading; we used to collect old unwanted PC’s from office skips etc and build working machines out of them – had set up a LAN in his house and we needed to get the router going.
In those days a ready built router was stupidly expensive (now ISPs give them away!) so you built your own router out of an old PC, two network cards, a small hard drive and the smoothwall software (which was a small linux kernel/server)
to configure the equipment you needed to know a bit about Unix and vi…
Anyway despite being in a drugged haze for a fair part of the early 90s and then not using Unix for 10 years I still managed to get that home built router going… (and I am not really a Unix techie by any means)
if E kiled your brain that badly there would be no way IMO I would have been able to remember how to get that kit going…
there was a 2-page article in this months mixmag, dunno if anyones got it – but basically it seemed to blame the weed more than the pills.
i first took e in 1993 and was bang on it for 4-5 years usually a couple of times a week if not more, then i got sidetracked with coke for acouple of years but still took e weekly with my coke. Since about 2000/01 i have been doing e once a week/fortnight but not as many in a session, probaly about 5 0r 6 max nowadays whereas 10-15 was not uncommon especially if i was at a big party. Its now 2007 and i still do them weekly/fortnightly (due to my work shiftpattern ). i am afather of 3 my oldest is 17, i’ve been married for 14 years and have never been out of work, i’ve had just 2 jobs in all those e years.
The probable effect on me has been, i dont get excited about anything anymore, i’m not unhappy as such, i just cant get hyper/excited about anything. I must also say that in the last 2 years my memory has been awful, short term and long term.
by the way, i’m now 37
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