Seemingly overnight, it became the drug of the nightlife.
The Starck Club’s creators had set out to make the best club in the world, and for the five years the venue was open, it just might have been. Grace Jones and Stevie Nicks performed on opening night, immediately turning the club into a destination for people flying in from out of state or even out of country. Tom Cruise, Owen Wilson, Timothy Leary, Jack Nicholson, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, and Jean-Michel Basquiat—not to mention George W.
But as word spread, so did interest in more varied contexts—namely, partying. In 1987 Jerome Beck, now an independent drug researcher in Portland, Oregon, and Marsha Rosenbaum, the director emerita of the Drug Policy Alliance’s San Francisco office, secured a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to put together the first ethnographic survey of MDMA users, which they later published in a book,.
Conveniently, MDMA could often be paid for with a credit card. One record store that sold it on the side rang it up as “accessories.” It was also available everywhere, from private “X parties” to spas that offered MDMA massages. Clubs and bars reigned supreme, though, as the venues of choice for taking Ecstasy. “Starck was one of a hundred clubs just in the Dallas–Forth Worth area that had Ecstasy being dealt in it,” Cain said.
“It wasn’t about making money, but about sharing a precious gift that had been bestowed on us,” said Debby Harlow, a Bay Area therapist. She became involved in the MDMA-assisted therapeutic community in the early 1980s and would go on to serve as one of its key figures during a pivotal moment in the years to come. “In those days, ‘one person touched two,’ as one of the Boston Group’s distributors told me.
Eventually McMillen wound up agreeing to Clegg’s offer, partly because he seemed so sincere—and also because he just wouldn’t leave McMillen alone. Clegg and his wife, Pauline, arrived at five o’clock one evening in a white BMW. The couple put on a new Deuter album called Ecstasy and draped a blanket over McMillen, who lay on the couch. “I was extremely dubious,” he said. “I didn’t take pills.”
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