27/09/2008 by admin.

Ecstasy really is in the news this weekend. Read this article today in the Guardian 

Sales of ecstasy in powder form make it increasingly difficult for drug takers to know what mind-altering substance they are consuming, a senior government adviser warned yesterday.

A rise in the importation of high-purity powder or crystal ecstasy has led to clubbers confusing it with cocaine, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACDM) heard at an open session reviewing legal classification.

Prof David Nutt, the council’s incoming chairman, said: “If you are buying white powders from someone, how do you know if you are getting MDMA [ecstasy’s main ingredient], methamphetamine or cocaine? It’s potentially very dangerous.” Powdered ecstasy was “massively more powerful” than tablet form.

Dr Paul Dargan, head of the poisons unit at Guy’s and St Thomas’s hospital, told the meeting: “We see a lot of patients who have taken powder they think is cocaine but was actually MDMA.

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27/09/2008 by admin.

Read this interesting article online by Colin Blakemore that I thought may be of interest to you. It is about the classification of drugs including ecstasy (ecstasy is currently a Class A drug ) and he concludes that ‘No drug is completely safe, but ecstasy does not destroy the brain and is not exceptionally toxic’

 Click here to read the full article about Ecstasy

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