The FDA recently approved the first ever U.S. study of Ecstasy as helpful medicine, a move that flies in the face of increasingly punitive and reactionary Ecstasy laws.
Dissident scientists are questioning the ban on Ecstasy, given its chemical similarity to medication used by two million kids with Attention Deficit Disorder.
The war on drugs may soon be over, but not because of legalization, stiffer penalties, or a truce between cartels and prohibitionists. This uneasy peace would come at the hands of pharmaceutical companies and biotech labs, which are about to unleash the ultimate weapon: the antidrug vaccine.