The FDA is poised to approve the notorious party drug as a therapy. Here’s what it means, and where similar drugs stand in the US. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, ...

On her song "What Was That" from her new album "Virgin," Lorde sings about "MDMA in the back garden" blowing her pupils up. Turns out, the psychedelic drug, also known as ecstasy or molly, has ...

For a while, MDMA looked poised to make history. After decades of advocacy from impassioned supporters, the party drug best known as ecstasy emerged as the frontrunner to be the first psychedelic ...

First came the rejection, and then came the retractions. On Friday, in a decision that would have been stunning just six months ago, the Food and Drug Administration decided against approving ...

MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), known colloquially as Molly and Ecstasy, is a synthetic drug with effects similar to stimulants like methamphetamine. It was first synthesized in 1912 by ...

A panel of advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will meet to discuss a therapy based on the psychedelic drug MDMA for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder. The meeting is the ...

Recent research confirms that the use of the drug MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, is associated with a significant decline ...

The psychedelic drug MDMA is near the end of a decades-long effort to enter mainstream medicine but instead of celebrating, supporters now find themselves wondering if the treatment will actually make ...

Psychedelics researchers and investors are still reeling from last week's no vote for MDMA by a panel of advisers to the FDA. Trouble for ecstasy? What MDMA's FDA setback could mean for psychedelics ...