And that will give you a therapeutic window of about four hours. I d say that I m completely convinced that ecstasy is dangerous. The government likes to say, The proponents of MDMA say that it s completely harmless. And therefore it s got to be illegal because we ve got some risks. So what we re trying to say is that it s not so simple.
Nothing is completely risk-free.
But the relative risk of MDMA, compared to heroin or cocaine or other drugs, is much, much lower. Taking MDMA in a rave, dancing all night and not resting and not drinking fluids, can lead to overheating, and people can die from it. But MDMA taken in a clinical setting, where people are taking it lying down, with their eyes closed, for an inner experience, where they occasionally will drink some fluids nobody has ever died from overheating in a clinical study. So the context really has a lot to do with the risk. I ve known thousands of people.