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90s rave drug is now legal for terminally ill patients in the USA

Published 18:35 23 Mar 2015 GMT

Updated 08:40 24 Mar 2015 GMT

Ben Kenyon
90s rave drug is now legal for terminally ill patients in the USA

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Ecstasy was the drug of every 90s warehouse party.

But apart from making ravers happy, loved up and dance with their maracas, it turns out the drug is pretty good for helping anxiety. Yes, it will keep you up all night at Creamfields and make you love even the worst house music, but it can also help people staring down the barrel of terminal illness, doctors say. While it's a controlled Class-A drug in Britain, medical researchers in the USA are being given special permission to test pure MDMA on people who are dying. It sounds a bit mad, but the treatment will be used alongside psychotherapy to help patients with a life expectancy of nine months.

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90s rave drug is now legal for terminally ill patients in the USA