however, if you do major in Organic chem. and Pharmacology you should have no trouble (doing the synthesis at least, if you can get POCL3 without the feds knocking down your front door then your only worry is trying to get lysergic acid without a hassle [i'd like to see you try, ha!]).
If you do an applied chem degree you might also learn enough inorganic chem to make phosphorous oxychloride.
A low yielding and possibly the worst approach
PCl3 + Br2 --> PCL2Br2
PCL2Br2 + SO2 --> SOBr2 + POCl2
After distilling the SOBr2 the residue byproduct is POCL3 at ~10-15%. This can then be carefully distilled.
But phosphorous oxychloride can also be made from tribasic calcium phosphate and silica and coke in a furnace. If you can't get the tribasic phosphate salt you can always make that via calcium hydroxide and phosphoric acid
2H3PO4 + 3Ca(OH)2 → Ca3(PO4)2 + 6H2O
Ca3(PO4)2 + 3SiO2 → 3CaSiO3 + P2O5
P2O5 + 5C → 2P + 5 CO
Reacting with the phosphorous product with stoichiometric amounts of chlorine produces PCL3, and excess chlorine produces PCL5
P4(s) + 6Cl2(g) --> 4PCl3 (l)
P4 (s) + 10Cl2 (g) --> 4PCl5 (s)
Phosphorous oxychloride can then be easily produced by reaction with the trichloride with either sulphur trioxide or potassium chlorate
PCl3 + SO3 --> POCl3 + SO2
3PCl3 + KClO3 --> 3POCl3 + KCl
As mentioned, the pentachloride can be hydrolyzed to POCL3, but with water, it's likely much will be further hydrolyzed to phosphoric acid (back to where we started from)
PCl5 + H2O --> POCl3 + 2HCl
PCl5 + 4H2O --> H3PO4 + 5HCl
Best procedure is probably from reaction with either boric acid or oxalic acid
3PCl5 + 2B(OH)3 --> 3POCl3 + B2O3 + 6HCl
PCl5 + (COOH)2 --> POCl3 + CO + CO2 + 2HCl
As can be seen, most of the steps are practically over the counter as far as ingredients are concerned, and where not, these reactants can be made via OTC routes.
Ref: mostly from H.Book of Inorganic Chemistry by Pradyot Patnaik
As for MDMA being easy, the whole procedure is way easier than for LSD as has been mentioned. Using the peracetic method (ala Chromic) the whole procedure is totally over the counter. And tweaked just right, reports are that it is just as high yielding as the performic.