​White supremacist “loses extremist views” after taking MDMA

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A white supremacist from the US, referred to by the name Brendan, is said to have lost his “extremist views” after taking MDMA in a clinical study, the BBC reports.

Brendan was enrolled on a clinical trial in February of 2020 led by Harriet de Wit, a professor of psychiatry and behavioural science at the University of Chicago. The double-blind study tested healthy volunteers looking at how MDMA affects the ‘pleasantness of social touch’.

After the trial had finished,…