Sassafras: The history behind the MDMA precursor
Lately, an acronym has been around everyone’s mouths, in some for its potential as a therapeutic tool, in others for the recent dilemma after the FDA denied its use as a tool for the treatment of PTSD. We are talking about MDMA.
We have all heard about the story of Sasha Shulgin re-discovering MDMA and becoming coined as the ‘Godfather’ of MDMA by the media (which he publicly claimed to hate.) But did you know that at some point in history, MDMA had a natural precursor?
A plant that goes under plenty of people’s radars and suddenly became absent from psychedelic history after the mass destruction of specimens by the US government, leading to the endangerment of its species after MDMA became popular in nightclubs, this plant is Sassafras.
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