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Why don't pharmaceutical companies admit that extacy is a cure for the common cold?

I'm not saying i use E but i know people who have had a cold, taken an E and the cold is gone

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  • 2 decades ago
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    because its not a cure!!!

    its a lethal drug!!!

  • 2 decades ago

    If you really believe this you might want to consider professional help for extreme gullability. Extacy isn't just one drug. You buy E and you don't know what you're getting. More often than not it's something mixed up by a teenaged chemistry student in a bucket in his father's garage.

    The other thing is that the common cold (there are many different strains) is caused by a virus. Viruses are notoriously difficult to cure. There are vaccines for some viruses, but there are no cures really. You can only treat symptoms. It's the same for all viruses, HIV, flu, polio, chickenpox, measels, mumps etc

  • 2 decades ago

    esctacy is not a cure for the common cold. It can seem that way based on the fact that some forms of esctacy is made from mixing alot of cold medicine together and putting in a pill. It's not real esctacy, but if you take enough it can give the effects of a high.

    there used to be an organization that would test esctacy tablets to see what they contained, it was available for people to see what was in the pill to make sure that they were not getting harmful substances into their system. (it's pretty interesting esctacydata.org) There are also numerous sites online that will give you straight facts about MDMA (esctacy) as long as they're are not government funded and spilling nothing is bad they will give you straight forward truth.

    MDMA does have medical usage but since it can become mentally addictive (not physically meaning you want to take more of the drug because it makes you feel good, but your body does not become dependent on it) it was decreed unsafe to market as a pharmaceutical drug.

  • 2 decades ago

    NO! It's NOT true! (P.S. to boredgal: Can I be you when I grow up?)

    The "common" cold is a collection of well over 200 different viruses. One of the reasons that we may never "cure" it is because it's so hard to identify exactly which virus you have and because viruses are constantly mutating.

    So even if this was true (and it's NOT) the effect wouldn't last very long.

    The only thing EX is a cure for is a normal life.

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  • Is this true?!

    They probably wont admitt it because many people have died from it and because it is sold on the streets therefore they cant profit from it!!!

    Isn't that what pharmaceutical companies are all abou!$$

  • 2 decades ago

    Because it might cure your cold but it will cause you a lot more damage besides!

  • leo
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    2 decades ago

    It is not a cure when there is side effect(100% cure is then consider not when there is another problem crops up???

  • 2 decades ago

    But how come that everone I've seen coming down from an E looks like they have pneumonia. I'd rather just have a cold thanks.

  • 2 decades ago

    That is the stupidest thing I have heard in awhile...So, we will have a country full of people walking around high as kites...but, hey, they won't be sniffling or sneezing so that's great! Duh...

  • 2 decades ago

    DUH It is illegal and dangerous. Dumb

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