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Weekly Dose: ecstasy, the party drug that could be used to treat PTSD

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

Ecstasy is the street name for 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA, an illicit party drug that speeds up messages to and from the brain and alters the user’s perception of reality. Other street names include eckies, E, XTC, pills, pingers and molly.

Pills sold as ecstasy contain variable amounts of MDMA, sometimes none, and may also...

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Banking – the culture wars

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It’s official, it’s war.

David Murray kicked the war off this week with his rather immoderate potshot at the corporate regulator, ASIC, for its efforts to address banking culture

And to be perfectly candid again, there have been people in the world who’ve tried to enforce culture. Adolf Hitler comes to mind.

Mr Murray, ex-head of...

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