Speaking of ravers, I found the world’s best raver dedication site. The Official Raver Homepage is an absolutely sick ass website that apparently speaks the raver gospel.  I’m having a hard time discribing all the lulz I’m getting reading this, so let the site’s ‘testimonial’ section do the talking for me.

Ravers can roll anywhere they want!  Ravers make cuddle puddles ALL the time and don’t even think twice about it.  These guys are so crazy and awesome that they take E ALL the time.  I heard that there was this Raver who was eating at a diner.  And when some dude dropped a spoon the Raver smeared Vicks on the whole town.  My friend Mary said that she saw a Raver totally massage some kid just because the kid was peaking.

And that’s what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you don’t believe that Ravers have REAL Ultimate Power you better get a life right now or they will give you light shows!!!  It’s an easy choice, if you ask me.

Ravers are sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants.  I can’t believe it sometimes, but I feel it inside my heart.  These guys are totally awesome and that’s a fact.  Ravers are fast, smooth, cool, strong, powerful, drugged up, and sweet.  I can’t wait to start listening to Happy Hardcore next year.  I love Ravers with all of my body (including my pee pee).

This is why MDMA is illegal, because if we could get E over the counter I would have to listen to dudes like this 24/7.  Hmm, I wonder what I’m going to do for Synthesis Drug of the Week…

Researchers are trying to prove that ecstasy can be used for more than dancing to mind-numbingly awful techno.This Washington Post article on Research into the medical use of MDMA, aka ecstasy, is pretty interesting. It talks about treatments in post-traumatic stress disorder, double-blind studies, and includes the views of important figures on both sides of the debate over medical use of ecstasy.

It also introduced me to my hero of the day, Alexander Shulgin (formerly of Dow Chemical).

“I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit,” he wrote. “We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can catalyze its availability.”

Shulgin made it his business to find those chemicals. In a New York Times profile in 2005, when Shulgin was 79, he estimated that he’d synthesized 200 psychoactive compounds and tested them on himself. Their effects ranged from paralyzing him with fear to granting him ecstatic visions. With MDMA, he was convinced that he’d found something special.

“I feel absolutely clean inside, and there is nothing but pure euphoria,” he wrote in his field journal. “The cleanliness, clarity, and marvelous feeling of solid inner strength continued . . . through the next day. I am overcome by the profundity of the experience.”

Sadly, the possibility of future medical use will forever be tarnished by this guy: