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Swede

(33,334 posts)
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 05:02 PM Jun 2012

Pure 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
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Pure ecstasy can be 'safe' if consumed responsible: B.C. health officer (Original Post) Swede Jun 2012 OP
approved by the Department of Ecstasy Enrique Jun 2012 #1
That does it! TexasTowelie Jun 2012 #2
"its lethal dangers only arise when the man-made chemical is polluted by money-hungry gangs" Warren Stupidity Jun 2012 #3
Have some soma, citizen! Bolo Boffin Jun 2012 #4
Don't really see a lot of stuff as any different from alcohol in that sense. (nt) Posteritatis Jun 2012 #5
Ecstasy causes profit loss. Rex Jun 2012 #6
I've never done ecstasy or any drug but caffeine. AJTheMan Jun 2012 #7
Isn't this an annual story now? Puregonzo1188 Jun 2012 #8

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
1. approved by the Department of Ecstasy
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 05:18 PM
Jun 2012

I nominate Dr. Kendall as Canada's first Secretary of Ecstasy.

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
3. "its lethal dangers only arise when the man-made chemical is polluted by money-hungry gangs"
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 05:43 PM
Jun 2012

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?

AJTheMan

(288 posts)
7. I've never done ecstasy or any drug but caffeine.
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 08:07 PM
Jun 2012

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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