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A Minor Victory for the Good Guys!
I hope you all caught last night's ABC special about MDMA (Ecstasy) by Peter Jennings. To be honest, I was astounded that Jennings was able to get such a balanced piece of reporting about MDMA on network television. After polling several members of the psychedelic community, I have concluded that this Special Report was very well received. Here are a couple of the comments I received about this program:

After seeing the program, I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. It was not at all a hatchet job, and the government came off looking pretty bad.

I especially liked the fellow who talked about the millions of doses done yearly, but lead to only two genuine cases of harm which could be traced to sole usage of Ecstasy. And making the point that very few pharmaceuticals are anywhere near this safe, even when used in an informed, supervised manner.

I was quite pleased with the way it was presented...the government was unable to articulate any sane and reasonable justification for shutting down what was essentially a whole lot of people having a good time and not having any problems about it on the one hand and a whole lot of people being healed and made whole again on the other.

I wonder if ABC will be boycotted and by what alternate lifeforms...the anguished/angry response from the nattering nabobs of neoconeheadevangelicalknuckleheadism and their ilk.

I'm going to send an email to ABC with a tip of my hat.

The comments I see from the entheo community are almost overwhelmingly positive. But there is also the sobering realization that a victory such as this will not have any dramatic impact. The Rave Act is already law. 90% of the minds out there are already set in stone on this issue. And only a small minority of people watched the program. Sigh...

posted by LoZo 2:45 PM