Why isn't MDMA legal for therapeutic purposes?!

Why isn't MDMA legal for therapeutic purposes?

If you say it's because a lot of kids abuse the drug, then why is any perscription drug legal? Lot's of kids abuse perscription drugs. And lot's of kids abuse illegal drugs... Why can't doctors perscribe it to people who could benefit from it's use during counseling sessions in a controlled environment?

3 months ago
It should be used for marraige counseling. Between partners who are struggling to understand each other, yet failing to open up to the other person's views. Especially between couples who have children to consider. I don't think it should be perscribed for people to use in their homes. A counseling session is a session where you talk to a counselor. Marraige counselors should be allowed to have their patients take a pill whenever they feel appropriate. That doesn't mean during every session. It means after they've diagnosed the situation, and they feel it will help. If it probably wont help, they probably shouldn't take the pill.

It should be legal the way it used to be legal. It should be used the way it was intended to be used. Why did it become illegal? Because kids abuse the drug? Again, I say, kids abuse every drug out there... legal, illegal, perscribed, or not... So why not legalize it for it's medical therapeutic uses? Or, rather, why didn't they keep it legal for that use?

3 months ago
PS... When I say "kids", I don't mean children. I mean people who are looking for a good time, Smart Guy.

It already is... sort of. Prozac works in a similar way to MDMA and is chemically very similar.

MDMA creates the production of serotonin in the brain. Prozac prevents the absorbtion of serotonin in the brain. Both drugs work on increasing serotonin levels in the brain.

When the pharmaceutical companies came to test the drugs they chose to spend their millions on testing Prozac. They could have just as easily spent their millions testing MDMA and this would be the new prozac.

All it takes is a couple of hundred million dollars for testing, and any drug can become "legal".

Warm Regards,
David