anybody here ever took a pill (E) and listened to the Black Album? i think i will try it next time i roll to hear the music in its created state (well, as the rumour goes). E usually makes me feel as if i become the music i hear so im excited!

"E"?

estrogyne supplement?
vitamin E?

No, but I did take acid once and my friend and I listened to both Lovesexy & the Black Album. You have no idea how wild those albums sounded on that shit. It was crazy.

Hey -

No judgements here. Just be careful about E.

Most people don't tell you about the depression hangover that can happen to some people. It's not just feeling "a little down". They call it 'Suicide Tuesdays' for a reason.

Again, it doesn't happen to everybody, but when it does...you'll stay away for good.

SV3....I'm good

DID IT...this weekend...wow! completely different...i loved it...the music was so much more textured and....everyone should try it...i cant explain....i always hated 2 Nigs...till now

poplife1977 said:[quote]everyone should try it...[quote]

Everyone SHOULDN'T try it. *Especially* if you are deal with depression or worry/anxiety.

The bottom line about Ecstasy is that you are BORROWING happiness from your future. You need the serotonin receptors for when you get older. Fry them now and you'll be one sad, evil SOB down the road.

Not to mention a bore for *normal* people to hang with.

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Swiped from National Institutes Of Health (www.nih.gov)

Heavy users of ecstasy, a synthetic drug that is structurally similar to methamphetamine and the hallucinogen mescaline, may be risking brain damage that remains long after the high has worn off, according to NIDA-supported research.

In a series of studies conducted with rats and nonhuman primates, Dr. George Ricaurte and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions first determined that a single dose of MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), only slightly higher than the size of doses taken by humans, significantly damaged brain cells called neurons that produce serotonin. Serotonin is a major neurotransmitter, or chemical messenger, in the brain that is thought to influence mood, appetite, sleep, and other important functions. Then Dr. Ricaurte reported that 12 to 18 months after the brains of squirrel monkeys had been damaged by MDMA, serotonin-producing nerve fibers had regrown abnormally in some brain regions and failed to regrow at all in others.

Unlike methamphetamine, which damages brain neurons that produce both serotonin and another important chemical messenger called dopamine, "MDMA selectively damages serotonin neurons in virtually all species examined to date," Dr. Ricaurte says.

"With MDMA, the doses that people take very closely approach the doses known to produce neurotoxic effects in animals," Dr. Ricaurte says.

"At this point, the major question is whether the neuronal changes we see in animals from methamphetamine and MDMA exposure occur in human beings who use these drugs," he says.

To help answer that question, he is conducting separate clinical studies using brain imaging techniques to evaluate the possibility of long-term brain damage in humans who have previously used either methamphetamine or MDMA. These studies also are assessing the potential functional consequences of such neuronal damage on aspects of mood, movement, memory, impulse control, aggression, and sleep cycles.

Determining the functional consequences of MDMA exposure may be more complex than previously thought, Dr. Ricaurte says. The long-term study with squirrel monkeys indicated that in some brain areas, such as those containing structures involved in memory and learning, damaged neurons failed to recover. However, in other brain areas, specifically those involved in regulating such functions as sleep and appetite, damaged neurons regrew nerve fiber excessively, resulting in an overabundance of serotonin being released. "This means that when we evaluate humans previously exposed to high doses of MDMA, we should be looking for loss of serotonin function in some brain regions, but perhaps normal or increased serotonin function in other regions," Dr. Ricaurte says.

Drugs and alcohol are two things I'm so glad I have zero interest for.

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[This message was edited Wed Feb 26 0:06:22 PST 2003 by IstenSzek]

i'm so glad of, and thankful for, the fact i can get massive enjoyment out of things in life (especially music and most especially PRINCE'S music..) *without* having to resort to drugs to "enhance" the experience....