MDMA

Unlike many of its subsequent users, Shulgin did not find his MDMA experience transformative. For him the effect was like a particularly lucid alcohol buzz; he called it his "low-calorie martini."

2005 January 30, Drake Bennett, “Dr. Ecstasy”, in The New York Times Magazine, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2021

When MDMA was placed on Schedule 1, the worst category of illegal drugs, the yuppies stopped partying and the dance scene went underground.

2012, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, Soft Skull Press, page 281

Sale of raw sassafras extract was banned in 1960, and today it can be sold freely only if it has had the safrole removed, both because it's poisonous, and because, quite separately, safrole happens to be a precursor chemical used in the synthesis of the illegal drug MDMA.

2014, Theodore Gray, photography by Nick Mann, Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything, 2018 Paperback Edition, page 178

In an important step toward medical approval, MDMA, the illegal drug popularly known as Ecstasy or Molly, was shown to bring relief to those suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder when paired with talk therapy.

2021 May 3, Rachel Nuwer, “A Psychedelic Drug Passes a Big Test for PTSD Treatment”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2021