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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPure ecstasy can be 'safe' if consumed responsible: B.C. health officer
VANCOUVER - B.C.'s top health official says taking pure ecstasy can be "safe" when consumed responsibly by adults, despite warnings by police in Alberta and British Columbia about the dangers of the street drug after a rash of deaths.
Dr. Perry Kendall asserts the risks of MDMA the pure substance originally synonymous with ecstasy are overblown, and that its lethal dangers only arise when the man-made chemical is polluted by money-hungry gangs who cook it up.
That's why the chief provincial health officer is suggesting the risks of black market MDMA could be mitigated, for example if it were legalized and potentially sold through licensed, government-run stores where the product is strictly regulated from assembly line to check-out.
http://www.theprovince.com/health/all/Pure+ecstasy+safe+consumed+responsible+health+officer/6779524/story.html#ixzz1xnt5ClIG
Enrique
(27,461 posts)I nominate Dr. Kendall as Canada's first Secretary of Ecstasy.
TexasTowelie
(112,757 posts)I'm moving to Canada.
--signed former X-fiend.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)but the stupid ass drugs war will continue, at least down here, until further notice. Or as we say inside the corporate feudal system "the beatings will continue until morale improves".
Will I live long enough to see the smog of stupid that has smothered our society since around 1980 vanish?
Isn't 30 years of the purported pendulum swinging the dumb way long enough?
Will my kids see the change come in their lifetimes?
Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)Good for what ails you!
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)So does thinking and sleep.
AJTheMan
(288 posts)We need to end the war on drugs. It will cut into the profits made by dangerous mexican cartels who murder people daily.
In the past four years, more than 35,000 people have been killed and thousands more have simply disappeared, since Calderon sent the military to battle Mexican organized crime with $1.6 billion in U.S. support.
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