COULD ecstasy’s stimulating effects help to counteract the damage cannabis causes to short-term memory?
The idea has been suggested in the past, but the answer is an emphatic no, according to the first study to test the possibility. June Young and her colleagues at the University of New England in New South Wales told a meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society in Adelaide last week that rats given MDMA, or ecstasy, as well as THC, the main active ingredient of cannabis, scored more than twice as badly on a memory test as rats given THC alone.
