I think you're correct. I thought that MDMA was going to be considered as a proper medication to help fight certain types of mental illness, but either President Reagan or the elder Bush Administration shut the door on it before any further studies could be made known to the public.
But that's the typical Drug Warrior attitude for ya: if the facts don't mesh to what you want the perceptions to be, make sure the facts don't come out!
You chose to crawl around with stoned horny babes; other men chose military and advanced technical training with the defined purpose to kill and destroy- pushing themselves to their personal limit. Chemicals won't erase anything.