Funding Ecstasy Research
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How sad that George Ricaurte receives government funding for killing primates with overdoses of Ecstasy to “prove” its ill effects on humans (“The Heretical Dr. X,” by Mark Ehrman, March 2). But not a penny goes to psychiatrist Charles Grob to research the 1.4 million young adults who use the drug regularly.
G. Harry McLaughlin
Glendale
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