This life-threatening cancer makes me want to dance all night and suck on a pacifier.
While perusing the Fox News website searching for how they may be blaming the Liberals for the devastating earthquake and tsunamis, I discovered this article about an upcoming study (pending DEA approval) using ecstacy to ease the mental anguish of terminal cancer patients.
My question is, what is there to study? If I have absolutely no chance of surviving, then you should let me have any and every drug I want. Let me do a Jamaican-hilltop-sized bong hit and down a few gin-and-LSD cocktails—what're you gonna do, arrest me? I'm gonna die any day now. Let me watch the walls breathe and see individual atoms vibrate with quantum energy and express my love for everything and everyone. It's my last chance to try and enjoy what little life I have left, so let me go how I choose to go. That's how Aldous Huxley went—tripping his balls off.
Before our brains shut down forever, don't we deserve a chance to experience everything our brains can truly do?
Now if you will excuse me, I have to get back to hearing colors.
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That article says that methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) reduces thirst. It is true that people under the influence of 'ecstasy' have neglected to drink water while dancing – or engaging in other strenuous physical activity – and have suffered dehydration so severe that it became life threatening. However, such incidents are dependent largely upon activity which is uninterrupted and prolonged. Normally, a person who ingests MDMA and does not engage in such activity, or does not engage in it for a prolonged period, experiences no reduction of thirst. In fact, the opposite is true: thirst is stimulated and water is consumed in large quantities. This thirst is a result of increased body temperature and resultant sweating. It is a well known fact among most users that water intake must be closely watched while under the influence of MDMA; too much can cause as many problems at too little. Cancer patients are not likely to be among users who engage in prolonged and strenuous physical activity, and would therefore experience no reduction of thirst. Fox News has completely misrepresented this fact in their article. They're liars.
Kelly is right:
"Acute dehydration is a risk among users who are highly physically active and forget to drink water, as the drug may mask one's normal sense of exhaustion and thirst. Also the opposite, 'water intoxication' resulting in acute hyponatremia has been reported." (source)
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