Ecstasy; The Flavourful Bombings Of The Molly! Sweet Exchanges In The Guise Of Nightlife

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Hana PP, Government Law College Kozhikode, Calicut University

ABSTRACT

MDMA—euphemistically branded as "Ecstasy" or "Molly"—is not just a stimulant for recreation; it is the substrate of India's shadow economy, a monument to legislative hypocrisies, a disturbing neurological subversion of human cognition. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, purportedly protects society, yet it concludes enforcement with selective prosecution, targeting the unpropertied while allowing the subsidiaries of illicit wealth to function unimpeded.1 No place illustrates this better than Kozhikode, where MDMA has morphed into an underground currency, far exceeding the drug status. It forms the anchor of the market, condemned with rhetorical abandon by law enforcement, while it becomes an economy of prohibition and supply. The performative crackdowns of the state—parades for visual control—do not dismantle the travel and trade of trafficking runs, they entrench them for better supplies and profits,while propagating a hydra-headed black market that occupies every time suppression is attempted. But beyond legal feeling. MDMA's neurological dominance is becoming a crisis, erasing the self into pharmacological detachment, while operating with an archaic, punitive model that prioritizes morality over harm reduction. This article examines the legal, economic, and psychological aspects of the flood of MDMA, contending that the state’s war on drugs is not effectively a war on drugs, but a war on the individuals that the state professes to protect. Until the state removes its self-relieved delusion and finally recognizes the underlying structural forces that propel its chemical empire, its anti-drug agenda will remain a farce of governance that upholds systemic oppression under the guise of prohibition.

Keywords: MDMA - Ecstasy - Molly - NDPS Act 1985 - Psychoactive Drugs - Kozhikode - Psychological Consequences - Socio-Legal Critique - Jurisprudential Hypocrisy - Drug War - India - Crisis

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