From the HUFFINGTON POST:
British Columbia’s top health official says taking pure ecstasy can be safe when consumed responsibly by adults, despite warnings by police about the dangers of the street drug after a rash of deaths.
Dr. Perry Kendall said Thursday that the risks of MDMA – the pure substance synonymous with ecstasy – are overblown, and that its lethal dangers arise when gangs mix the manmade chemical with other toxic substances…
Kendall is advocating that MDMA be legalized and sold through licensed, government-run stores where the product is strictly regulated…
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EDITOR: The United States Government has been murdering our youngsters over years due to willful blindness of scientific evidence and misplaced fears of this other relatively benign drug, long prescribed by psychiatrists to reduce mental inhibitions (not sexual) of their patients.
Our government has foolishly: Banned the sale of ecstasy when it should be avialable under government supervision , as we do with alcoholic beverages, thus creating the market for adulterated pills that can be lethal. The government has discouraged the sale of water at teen age gatherings. (A danger of consuming ecstasy is a failure to drink adequate liquids). The government is driving youngsters to binge drinking as a way of reducing inhibitions.
Part of the maturing process for youth is staying up late and talking, talking, talking. Marijuana can be useful in reducing anxiety levels but it has effects which may not be conducive to communications.
What is it that causes our nation above all others in the Western world to war on ourselves? Nineteenth century newspaper publisher Horace Greeley is famous for saying “Go West young man.” Today he might instead say “Go North young people…to Canada.”
For peer reviewed or governmental information concerning ecstasy, visit Drug War Facts.
