3-Chloromethamphetamine (3-CMA, MCMA) is a
substituted amphetamine derivative invented in the 1960s. In animal studies it was deemed to be a "hallucinogen" rather than a
stimulant, though the assays used at the time did not distinguish between the compounds now termed
psychedelics and those now termed
empathogens.[1][2][3]
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