<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">As Nick and Marcus noted, I was trolling / teasing with this post. MDMA, aka Molly and Ecstacy is a mood altering, mildly psychogenic party drug. Illegal, even in Europe, but there is is not prosecuted much.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Can't say how the drug affects the body's multiple systems because next to zero research is being done — is is frowned upon research like all psychedelics.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">My friends' experience was interesting but anecdotal and probably coincidental.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">davew<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Sun, May 24, 2020, at 10:39 AM, Tom Johnson wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="auto"><div>So what is MDMA?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="max-height:999999px;color:rgb(60, 64, 67);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="font" style="font-family:roboto, helveticaneue, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px;">3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, commonly known as ecstasy or molly, is a psychoactive drug primarily used for recreational purposes. The desired effects include altered sensations, increased energy, empathy, as well as pleasure. When taken by mouth, effects begin in 30 to 45 minutes and last 3 to 6 hours.</span></span></span><span style="max-height:999999px;color:rgb(60, 64, 67);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="font" style="font-family:roboto, helveticaneue, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px;"><span style="max-height:999999px;"> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA" style="max-height:999999px;color:rgb(25, 103, 210);text-decoration-line:none;">Wikipedia</a></span></span></span><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And how do we think it works in the body's multiple systems?<br></div><div dir="auto">Tom <br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_attr">On Sun, May 24, 2020, 6:45 AM Prof David West <<a href="mailto:profwest@fastmail.fm">profwest@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="qt-gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:1px;padding-left:1ex;"><div>Some friends I made in Amsterdam live in a commune — 30-32 of them. They had to go into quarantine six weeks ago with two members of the group testing positive for COVID. So they were pretty confident that they would all get the disease while in quarantine.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Reading that the virus does best in cool moist environments they decided to take daily doses of MDMA — which raises body temperature and dehydrates.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> When the left quarantine last week, all of them tested positive for the antibodies but none of them had suffered symptoms beyond mild sniffles. <br></div><div> <br></div><div> Proof positive that MDMA prevents COVID from getting past your nasal / mouth tissue where is causes minimal harm.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Right?<br></div><div> <br></div><div> davew<br></div><div> <br></div><div> -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ...<br></div><div> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br></div><div> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 <a href="http://bit.ly/virtualfriam" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/virtualfriam</a><br></div><div> un/subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br></div><div> archives: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/<br> FRIAM-COMIC</a> <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a> </div></blockquote></div><div>-- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ...<br></div><div>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br></div><div>Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 <a href="http://bit.ly/virtualfriam">bit.ly/virtualfriam</a><br></div><div>un/subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br></div><div>archives: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/</a><br></div><div>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a> <br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>