When did Ecstasy become an illegal substance?

When did Ecstasy become an illegal substance?

Ecstasy's got a unique history it's the only drug that was ever emergently scheduled so it was placed in schedule one without any real data and this was emergently done in June of 1985 I believe. Then what happened was, there was a series of hearings where a group of psychiatrists sued the DEA to try to get it put in a lower schedule. And the administrative law judge agreed that it should be in a lower schedule that it did have a potential medical use and low potential for abuse and recommended that it be put in schedule three. The DEA took that recommendation ignored it and kept it in schedule one and that's where it's been every since.