Comments on: Why Microdosing MDMA Could Be A Bad Idea

By: Janet

Janet — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 15:17:27 +0000

Gotta say this direct and clear. Some of the reports from people microdosing sounds like they did not take a subperceptual amount. Ex: “my high went into the night”.
Unfortunately, this whole article sounds like the same old same old warnings that were given for psychedelics for decades; we don’t know much about it based on what we know of abuses of it, so we conclude this and that. Very unsatisfying, and frankly doesn’t give me any reason to explore any more research by this author.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 14:43:27 +0000

I agree with Blank, Bill, Sid and Sarah. 25 mg is not a microdose. The article is misleading.

By: Mad hatter

Mad hatter — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 08:42:56 +0000

Microdosing shouldn’t be looking at the people who take large quantities semi frequently.. that’s like conducting a study on the effects of alcohol and say those who use it once a month in small amount means there no chance of alcohol abuse addiction or long term effects when the people you should be studying are the heavy frequent users, drinking a glass of wine a day can be good for your heart health, but not a bottle.

By: sascha

sascha — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 06:44:57 +0000

In reply to Ben Taylor. It is dangerous to talk about MDMA and use Extasy as a synonym. They are NOT the same thing. I believe MDMA is great for PTSD and that is an issue people have to work on in the short term, not something to avoid the symptoms of by taking microdoses. Every substance should be a medicine used to overcome the illness and then stop taking it. MDMA os a stimulant but that is not what you should look for, i believe. The only serious effect MDMA is useful for is fear and anxiety suppressiom in the amygdala, I think. Which is why it is tested on a normal dose with psychotherapy. Personally I am using it for meditating on fearful trauma, following the 3 cycle (1 dose before, half dose afterwards). The stimulant effect is minimum and affects only my brain, not the body. But like LSD it keeps me awake so would never think of microdosing. Besides, because its great effect on those who struggle with anxiety, I think it could give mental addiction.

By: Lhan

Lhan — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 07:05:39 +0000

All of these low lives trying to convince people that it’s safe to abuse.

By: Ben Taylor

Ben Taylor — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 01:02:27 +0000

In reply to Gadfly.

Hello Everyone. I’m not too good at wording things via text so I’ll give it my best shot. I’ve been taking MDMA (Pill Form) now for about 3 months straight.

At first I would only take, let’s say, half a whole pill, and this would be at weekends only etc recreational…:

This was amazing at the time because with MDMA “Less is more” and I honestly believe it.

However…the half *every now and then* wasn’t cutting it and I built up a tolerance to it quickly enough.

I left the MDMA for about 2 weeks..

I’ve since then (not sure on specific dates and times) started Micro-dosing….a quarter of a pill EVERY day for the last 2 months….

OFF THE START

Most days, I am exactly as I should be, the Microdose literally gives me the “happy” “euphoric” feeling but often times not so much the buzzing feeling…this was great to me at first as I was literally able to be at work 9 – 5 on MDMA but it only gave me the social and happy aspects NOT buzzing. So people literally thought I was myself..

A MONTH OR SO LATER NOW…

Microdosing still…however I have yet AGAIN built up more of a Tolerance and here’s where the problem began to lay…

MDMA as far as I’m concerned isn’t addicting itself, however I have an addictive personality; I could literally get addicted to anything that makes me feel some type of way.

Now the problem here, was that I kept taking so many pills to the point I FELT like I couldn’t function without them…

This lead to me starting to crush them up and sniff them…..different ball game. I am still consuming it this way to this day.

The moral of this whole comment, as explained before with my bad way of wording things, LONG TERM PROBLEMS WITH PERSISTENT MDMA USE WILL LEAVE YOU BASICALLY EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE…

Long story short

To anyone who is Reading this.

MDMA – LESS IS MORE !!!!!

By: katie

katie — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:34:58 +0000

I was micro-dosing MDMA for one and half weeks when my office work pilled up. I was really active during those days and my work efficiency doubled. I was able to complete my work in a weeks time. But, unlike other psychedelics MDMa was more addictive. I planned to microdose for a week but i continued the same for the next few weeks. Moreover unlike LSD or shrooms, each day i have to increase the dose to get the same level of high as previous day.

By: Blank

Blank — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 04:15:05 +0000

In reply to Patrick Smith. Shame on you for continuing to encourage fear mongering which this SO CLEARLY is when it's been clearly pointed out what you are doing. What yall are saying is EXACTLY on the level of acid flashback myths and other such things. Choosing to not modify the article to be more clear and specific, and evidence-based is dangerous. Spreading misinformation like this is dangerous. Choosing to be willfully ignorant like this IS DANGEROUS. Your stance is based on what amounts to biased studies, and not even many of them. This is not harm-reduction, it is fear mongering. Your very title 'claims with certainty' that microdosing with mdma is dangerous, not MIGHT be dangerous. Is a bad idea, not MIGHT be a bad idea.

By: Bl@ckR0s3

Bl@ckR0s3 — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 07:09:53 +0000

My heart always feels a bit off when taking ecstasy pill, but not when taking pure MDMA crystals.

At raves, when my heart feels weird it seems I’m gonna have a heart attack of sorts, I feel a lot of anxiety at raves.
The solution: oxitocin – walk around asking to hug people, and do so legitimately and deliberately.

That calms the heart completely.

So here is what I’d like to see in a research: Keep test subjects in a friendly environment and allow them to socialize, interact and love each other fraternally. Then tell me how 5HT2B receptors are doing.

Thanks!

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:32:01 +0000

Even after being given tips on how to edit this article to make it clear that it is accurate information & not just fear mongering (like citing/linking sources/studies. CLEARLY identifying that microdosing hasn’t been proven to be DEFINITIVELY hazardous YET. Using anecdotes that state potentially recreational doses as “micro-dosing” i.e 25mg being WAY too high of a dose for micro-dosing…I know people who get sufficiently high off of 25mg. Especially small girls, 25mg for a friend of mine weighing under 100lbs is her ideal dose when product is very high purity)…Even after all of these tips to make the article more credible, educational & accurate the author (authors?) refuse to change it in any way. Therefore stating potentially false information and presenting it as fact (as far as the reader knows) as a way to stop people from doing something they have no proof is harmful, as opposed to presenting their theory as just that, a theory, based on a very educated guess mind you, and then advising people to not micro-dose MDMA until further studies+proven information that is is/is not harmful becomes available.
In my mind, and I’m sure many others as well, this is basically TEXT BOOK FEAR MONGERING and I’d advise anyone who reads it to take it as such until the author starts using more professional practices of harm reduction and relaying accurate information.