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Authorities say agents interrupted an attempt to smuggle a load of MDMA, or ecstasy, from Canada to San Francisco.
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Peterborough Coroner's Court heard Mr Allison Jr, 28, died last March after taking MDMA - also known as ecstasy.
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The fifth-year engineering student at the University of California, San Diego, was detained on the morning of April 21, a Saturday, when DEA agents raided a house they suspected was being used to distribute MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy.
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In 2011 Canada made it illegal to possess or import anything (from chemicals to beakers) with the purpose of making meth or MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy.
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Ecstasy is methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA for short, which is a synthetic, psychoactive (mind-altering) drug with hallucinogenic and amphetamine-like properties.
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Methylenedioxymeth-amphetamine, or MDMA, the chemical compound that is the basis of Ecstasy, has been around for decades.
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MDMA. He is particularly concerned about research that shows long-term mental changes in Ecstasy users.
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"Now we have pills, now we also have Molly (the crystal or powder form of the drug MDMA), and I would say to the late 2000s, we also had the ecstasy rush, " Hall said.
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