We recently reported that many colleges are now reaching out to students about the dangers of the illicit club drug “Molly” following a series of fatal overdoses, some involving students.

Kara Mason, a student at Colorado State University – Pueblo, files a detailed report on the designer drug killing college students across the country.

…Many claim the drug as non-addictive, making it safer, but the truth is it can still be addictive like any other drug. The Drug Enforcement Agency lists Molly as a Schedule 1 controlled substance, meaning it has a high potential of abuse and has no medical use. In other words, it’s illegal.

The effects of using Molly vary. Users can experience increased heartbeat, faintness, chills, nausea, blurred vision and body tremors, according to abovetheinfluence.com.

The pharmaceutical company Mereck first patented MDMA in 1914, but it became well known as a drug prescribed by psychotherapists to get their patents to open up in the 1970s. The drug, then known as ecstasy, made its way into the nightclub scene in the 1980s and 1990s.

When it gained popularity in pop culture, additives in the drug like caffeine, aspirin, speed and ketamine diminished the drug’s popularity, but the drug’s most recent reputation as pure has fueled its comeback.

Molly is even becoming a popular reference among celebrities.

Jay-Z gave the drug a shoutout in his song “Empire State of Mind” with the lyrics, “MDMA got you feeling like a champion.” Madonna asked her fans at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami if anybody had seen Molly, but then later stated she was actually referring to a friend’s song about a real person named Molly. Miley Cyrus has become the latest celebrity to be questioned about the drug reference. In her song “We Can’t Stop” she sings what sounds like, “we like to party, dancing with Molly,” but her publicist was quick to tell the press it’s actually “dancing with Miley.”

But it’s not a joke.

The Wall Street Journal reports that on Sunday. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) called on law-enforcement agencies to bring “a new focus onto Molly labs.”

Margaret Rybarczyk, whose 20-year-old grandson died of a Molly overdose in July, told the Journal that “these kids think they’re taking something that’s going to make them happy. Unfortunately, if you get a bad batch, you die.”