(2003-05-30) Cabal Ecstatsy Trust

In the course of a book review, Alan Cabal says: Frank Owen writes with a certain nostalgia, and repeatedly implies that there was something innately noble in the origins of the club scene. Again and again he refers to the idea that MDMA was some kind of unique Social Glue bringing together the different races and genders in some blissninny orgy of serotonin-fueled agape. I've taken Ecstasy a few times. It's a remarkably stupid drug. It induces a state best described as the opposite of paranoia. A better street name for it would be "chump," because only a chump would take it in a public venue. Trust is a valuable commodity and shouldn't be given lightly. Any drug that induces trust is a drug to be avoided.