Comments on: Ecstasy as Cancer Drug?

By: Julian Sanchez

Julian Sanchez — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:54:29 +0000

MDMA deaths are typically the result of problems like dehydration that result from unsupervised use, and wouldn't be an issue in a clinical setting. As for other side effects, the whole point of a therapeutic trial is to assess how severe they are relative to the benefits. If you're dying in agony or non-functional due to PTSD, you might decide the side effects weren't all that big a deal.

By: JW

JW — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:12:35 +0000

So on the one hand, the FDA is supposed to keep drugs like Vioxx, Celebrex, and Aleve off the market due to the side effects that have only become statistically apparent as more and more people started taking them, but on the other, they can fund a study of the theraputic effects of a substance that WE ALREADY KNOW #$@% WELL has #@$#ed up kids year to year to year, killing them in some cases. Am I the only one to see a logic disconnect somewhere here?

By: Davod

Davod — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:40:01 +0000

I don't understand this. It was my understanding that ecstasy's side effects are worse than other drugs. What are the benefits versus the negatives. How close to dying do you have to be for the drug to be beneficial without giving you the negative effects.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:49:20 +0000

Um, Ecstasy isn't legal, either.

By: Ernie

Ernie — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:42:19 +0000

You need to watch a person die of cancer? My Mother in-law died of Lung cancer. The last month she did not know we were there. If there is a drug that could help them during the end, I say use it. My mother died of cancer also and was in a Morphine coma for the last week of her life. But for Marijuana use, it is just to make Marijuana legal. Get over the fack that marijuana is not legal.