just thought i'd get this one going to discuss (or speculate on) the immediate and lasting effects of the use of mdma and other active substances you might find in ecstasy these days
a question that i've asked myself is can you safely manage your consumption of substances such as mdma (that's all i'm interested in personally) in a similar way that you can alcohol
the food that we eat, the air that we breathe etc. all contributes to our ultimate demise through physiological degeneration, but it's generally at a rate and to a degree that doesn't warrant abstinence in the same way that ingesting say cyanide would (plus i think you'd have a hard time getting by without breathing )
similar to the effects of alcohol i think anyone using mdma has to accept the fact that there is going to be a degree of damage caused by seretonic neurotoxicity (dopaminergic neurotoxicity it doesn't look so), however can this be regulated so as to avoid serious short and long term effects? that's what i would like to discuss (and anything else relevant that comes up)
if you use mdma in moderation in addition to an otherwise reasonably healthy lifestyle, can you allow sufficient time between rolling to allow adequate regeneration to "safely" enjoy mdma the same way you can alcohol
i wonder in future is it possible that a legalised recreational mdma industry will be held in a similar regard to the current wine industry? there's no shortage of binge drinking "wino's" out there, but still the wine industry is held in a high regard....could a sensible crowd of mdma users bring it into a new regard within society
another point i would like to bring up is dopamine.......i've noticed that a lot of people refer to "low sertonin levels" as being the detrimental consequence of the use of amphetamine like substances, however there's currently a lot of work in progress that suggests a lack of dopamine (which is primarily responsible for that euphoric feeling you get from mdma) is responsible for a lot of problems, and as the two (seretonin and dopamine) actually counterbalance each other in the brain, this is as a consequence of too much seretonin
the current "old school" of thought that uses stimulants to address conditions like depression or anxiety is almost like firefighters using petrol instead of water! a bit counter productive. at the moment there's a few studies just starting to toy with the idea that mdma could have medical applications, and i seriously think it's possible it will be used as the basis of a dopamine medication in future
here's a link to a good article to get you started if you're interested:
http://www.mcmanweb.com/dopamine.html
i could rattle off shite on this subject for a while so rather than do that i'd probably just suggest that people start reading up on the relationship between serotonin and dopamine in the brain, the role dopamine plays in our psychological condition, and draw their own conclusions (then bring it up here )
a question that i've asked myself is can you safely manage your consumption of substances such as mdma (that's all i'm interested in personally) in a similar way that you can alcohol
the food that we eat, the air that we breathe etc. all contributes to our ultimate demise through physiological degeneration, but it's generally at a rate and to a degree that doesn't warrant abstinence in the same way that ingesting say cyanide would (plus i think you'd have a hard time getting by without breathing )
similar to the effects of alcohol i think anyone using mdma has to accept the fact that there is going to be a degree of damage caused by seretonic neurotoxicity (dopaminergic neurotoxicity it doesn't look so), however can this be regulated so as to avoid serious short and long term effects? that's what i would like to discuss (and anything else relevant that comes up)
if you use mdma in moderation in addition to an otherwise reasonably healthy lifestyle, can you allow sufficient time between rolling to allow adequate regeneration to "safely" enjoy mdma the same way you can alcohol
i wonder in future is it possible that a legalised recreational mdma industry will be held in a similar regard to the current wine industry? there's no shortage of binge drinking "wino's" out there, but still the wine industry is held in a high regard....could a sensible crowd of mdma users bring it into a new regard within society
another point i would like to bring up is dopamine.......i've noticed that a lot of people refer to "low sertonin levels" as being the detrimental consequence of the use of amphetamine like substances, however there's currently a lot of work in progress that suggests a lack of dopamine (which is primarily responsible for that euphoric feeling you get from mdma) is responsible for a lot of problems, and as the two (seretonin and dopamine) actually counterbalance each other in the brain, this is as a consequence of too much seretonin
the current "old school" of thought that uses stimulants to address conditions like depression or anxiety is almost like firefighters using petrol instead of water! a bit counter productive. at the moment there's a few studies just starting to toy with the idea that mdma could have medical applications, and i seriously think it's possible it will be used as the basis of a dopamine medication in future
here's a link to a good article to get you started if you're interested:
http://www.mcmanweb.com/dopamine.html
i could rattle off shite on this subject for a while so rather than do that i'd probably just suggest that people start reading up on the relationship between serotonin and dopamine in the brain, the role dopamine plays in our psychological condition, and draw their own conclusions (then bring it up here )