webguy
Bluelighter
How strange. I thought I posted a reply on this yesterday, but I guess it didn't post. Anyway, here goes again: the issue here is not that MDMA will screw up your brain, your ambition, or your life. It won't. But excessive use of ANY substance, most especially alcohol but also heroin, coke, LSD or MDMA, can lead to misplaced efforts that result in less happening in a person's life than might have had no drug use been chosen. (I would exempt marijuana: smoke all you want).
I base my comment/judgment on substantial experience. I began using pot at age 16 and have continued daily until now... 47 years later. Yup, I'm in my 60s; had a quite successful career as a college prof, and have retired from all work comfortably set. The set of friends I have traveled through this life with all have had successful careers (doctors, lawyers, architects, business owners, you get the idea) with the exception of the people who overdid and ODed on things like heroin or barbiturates (and died), even though they used MDMA and pot. Other than maybe aggravating a cough when you have a cold, pot will not screw you up at all.
Now, to get to the meat of the question: does MDMA screw up your brain, ambition, life? Like I said at the outset, yes: excessive use can dim your bulb, but it is unlikely to result in some immediate mental breakdown, unlike LSD which unfortunately can produce psychotic reactions even in a single dose. (Seen it too many times). But if a person keeps things in balance with MDMA by spacing out those lovely evenings to be at least six to eight weeks apart, if they keep their dosage to a reasonable amount (like one to two tested pure tablets max), and if they deal with the comedown on Monday and Tuesday without panic, and with the knowledge that feeling shitty is simply a chemical phase within them that will pass, you can use MDMA over many years. Personally, I was doing lots of LSD in the later 1960s, lots of coke in the 70s and 80s, and MDMA since about 1995 or 1996. In each case, by keeping it to weekends, and by showing up at work and buckling down to do it even when I might have preferred to lounge in bed, my friends and I have been able to keep the down side to a minimum.
The key thing to avoid is excess. Just like getting a little buzzed is way different from being falling down drunk, having reasonable use of MDMA requires the judgment to say no to some opportunities. It's just never a good idea to take it on consecutive days. Nor is an every weekend habit going to work out for you. Nor will being the guy who always pops the most pills every time there is a party. Find the balance between elation and the temptation to take the road to ruin.
I base my comment/judgment on substantial experience. I began using pot at age 16 and have continued daily until now... 47 years later. Yup, I'm in my 60s; had a quite successful career as a college prof, and have retired from all work comfortably set. The set of friends I have traveled through this life with all have had successful careers (doctors, lawyers, architects, business owners, you get the idea) with the exception of the people who overdid and ODed on things like heroin or barbiturates (and died), even though they used MDMA and pot. Other than maybe aggravating a cough when you have a cold, pot will not screw you up at all.
Now, to get to the meat of the question: does MDMA screw up your brain, ambition, life? Like I said at the outset, yes: excessive use can dim your bulb, but it is unlikely to result in some immediate mental breakdown, unlike LSD which unfortunately can produce psychotic reactions even in a single dose. (Seen it too many times). But if a person keeps things in balance with MDMA by spacing out those lovely evenings to be at least six to eight weeks apart, if they keep their dosage to a reasonable amount (like one to two tested pure tablets max), and if they deal with the comedown on Monday and Tuesday without panic, and with the knowledge that feeling shitty is simply a chemical phase within them that will pass, you can use MDMA over many years. Personally, I was doing lots of LSD in the later 1960s, lots of coke in the 70s and 80s, and MDMA since about 1995 or 1996. In each case, by keeping it to weekends, and by showing up at work and buckling down to do it even when I might have preferred to lounge in bed, my friends and I have been able to keep the down side to a minimum.
The key thing to avoid is excess. Just like getting a little buzzed is way different from being falling down drunk, having reasonable use of MDMA requires the judgment to say no to some opportunities. It's just never a good idea to take it on consecutive days. Nor is an every weekend habit going to work out for you. Nor will being the guy who always pops the most pills every time there is a party. Find the balance between elation and the temptation to take the road to ruin.
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