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		fyrabanks on June 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Alexander Shulgin has died This is MDMA we're talking about... not psychedelics. I've known people (SWIM and all that) who have taken it purely to abort a bad LSD trip. Pure MDMA is not going to produce anxiety. You can even be fairly functional on it, depending on the dose. There are plenty of "I really wish this was over" drugs, and MDMA simply isn't one of them.

sjf on June 3, 2014 [–]

Nothing is that straight forward. It does happen: http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.cgi?S=3&C=6&OldSort=RA...

Even anxiolytics can cause anxiety/panic attacks if they have a paradoxical reaction.

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