The People's Prozac  Dissident Scientists Question the Ban on
Ecstasy  Consider the two dosing lines for America's young
people—the one outside the club and the one in the school
nurse's office. At the door to raves, kids stand with Ecstasy
pills on their tongues, waiting for the weekly surge of empathy
and good feeling that comes from the combination of hallucinogen
and amphetamine. For this rush, which was legal before 1985,
they risk jail terms and the loss of student aid.  But every day
outside the nurse's office, roughly 2 million kids line up for
their daily dose of stimulant, very likely Adderall, a
prescription amphetamine that is quickly replacing Ritalin as
the drug of choice for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
For this high, which is said to help learning, teachers and
parents lend encouragement.  The double standard, says
neurotoxicologist Dr. James O'Callaghan, points to the nation's
blind spot when it comes to Ecstasy, also known as MDMA.
O'Callaghan says that chemical cousins Adderall