[guildenstern]

Yes but MDMA specifically will mangle your brain after very little recreational usage relative to almost all other drugs. Recreational use of MDMA a few times a week is _very bad_ on the long term health of your brain, very few other drugs are on that level — certainly none of the drugs you’ve listed.

[ClassyJacket]

"a few times a week" is considered pretty insane for even heavy users. I don't think that just about anybody is advocating that frequency of use. Regardless of long term effects I think most people would be feeling pretty messed up by the end of that week.

Once a week is sustainable in the short term but I am not recommending that and make no claims as to its safety in the long term. I would have no way of knowing other than googling studies.

That being said I'd still like a source for the claim:

"Yes but MDMA specifically will mangle your brain after very little recreational usage relative to almost all other drugs."

[Broken_Hippo]

like the other poster said, a few times a week is not recreational at that point. Recreational use tends to be at most every other month, but for many more folks is going to be much less than that - 1 to 3 times a year.

I've known a person or two that simply didn't know how to space out their use, and did wind up with depression as a result. But this is the sort of thing that you can teach so long as you are honest about the rest of your drug education. It is something you can teach when you sell it to people. You can limit what folks can buy and keep a record of when people buy it - we already do this with some decongestants, after all. It isn't that there is not risks, but your comment is misguided on what constitutes more common recreational use of this particular drug and the things we can do to avoid this situation.

[mg794613]

Sorry but few times a week is not recreational anymore. your brain needs rest for some months to rebuild/rest the receptors. truly these substances are controlled because they need little to get an overdose (at least in developed countries). It is a risk prevention measure because not everybody has the iq of 100

[guildenstern]

Recreational usage is not relative to the substance, it’s dependent on behaviour. If you’re dependent on a substance (whether that’s physically dependent or mentally) you’re no longer a recreational user but if you’re using something frequently or infrequently for enjoyment then you are a recreational user — regardless of whether or not that substance is safe to use at your chosen frequency.

[travmatt]

I think the point was you can’t claim recreational usage when you are using the substance in such a way that you will be doing harm.

[heavenlyblue]

>> is _very bad_ on the long term health

Would you prove that please?