Editing Drug Enforcement Administration (section)

=== MDMA DEA scheduling overturn ===
In 1985 [[MDMA]] and its analogues were under review by the American government as a drug with a potential for addiction. During this time, several public hearings on the new drug were held by the DEA. Based on all of the evidence and facts presented at the time, the DEA's administrative law judge did not see MDMA and its analogues as being of large concern and recommended that they be placed in Schedule III. The DEA administrator, expressing concern for addictive potential, overruled the recommendation and ruled that MDMA be put in Schedule I, the [[Controlled Substances Act]]'s most restrictive category.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.drugtext.org/library/research/mdma/archive/15/default.htm |title=24 MDMA, Chorles S. Grob and Russell E Polond |publisher=Drugtext.org |access-date=August 31, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911203541/http://www.drugtext.org/library/research/mdma/archive/15/default.htm |archive-date=September 11, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>Video Documentary: "Hooked – Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way: LSD, Ecstasy and Raves", The History Channel</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maps.org/dea-mdma/|work=MAPS|url-status=dead|title=Documents from the DEA Scheduling Hearing of MDMA, 1984-1988|access-date=September 9, 2008|archive-date=May 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523212117/http://www.maps.org/dea-mdma/}}</ref>