Other - Whos the oldest person you've ever seen rolling? How did it effect them?

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I've been thinking about this a lot recently. Basically my grandad who is 84 is really uptight, unable to show any emotions, stubborn towards people close to him and shows no empathy towards anyone. Basically someone who could really do with some MDMA therapy to open his mind to human empathy, love and emotion. MDMA's powers of truthful self introspection have always worked wonders in opening up people who hide their emotions I have noticed.

Now, the last thing I'm gonna do is suggest that he tries MDMA. But it has got me wonding if at his age MDMA would have the same effects as it does on the younger generation. Or even if it would be unsafe for someone that old to try MDMA.

I would also love to see my mom or dad try a small dose of MDMA for its empathogenic qualities to see if it could change their intransient attitudes towards life, but would be scared to suggest it to them or even talk to them about it, as they are against all 'drugs use'.

So if anyone knows of anyone who is really old and has tried MDMA, what effects it had, etc, could you post it here as i'm interested in this.

I know from this article in the times of a woman called Donna who was cured of her PTSD and inability to love, but she was a mere 39, not REALLY old like I'm thinking of.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif...cle3850302.ece

An Ecstasy tablet. That’s what it took to make Donna Kilgore feel alive again – that and the doctor who prescribed it. As the pill began to take effect, she giggled for the first time in ages. She felt warm and fuzzy, as if she was floating. The anxiety melted away. Gradually, it all became clear: the guilt, the anger, the shame.

Before, she’d been frozen, unable to feel anything but fear for 10 years. Touching her own arms was, she says, “like touching a corpse”. She was terrified, unable to respond to her loving husband or rock her baby to sleep. She couldn’t drive over bridges for fear of dying, was by turns uncontrollably angry and paralysed with numbness. When she spoke, she heard her voice as if it were miles away; her head felt detached from her body. “It was like living in a movie but watching myself through the camera lens,” she says. “I wasn’t real.”

Unknowingly, Donna, now 39, had post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). And she would become the first subject in a pioneering American research programme to test the effects of MDMA – otherwise known as the dancefloor drug Ecstasy – on PTSD sufferers.

Some doctors believe MDMA could be the key to solving previously untreatable deep-rooted traumas. For a hard core of PTSD cases, no amount of antidepressants or psychotherapy can rid them of the horror of systematic abuse or a bad near-death experience, and the slightest reminder triggers vivid flashbacks.