POLICE CHIEF DEFENDS 'SAFE' ECSTASY

Ecstasy is safer than aspirin, Richard Brunstrom, the Chief Constable
of North Wales Police, has said.

Speaking on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 yesterday, Mr
Brunstrom repeated his call for the legalisation of drugs. "There's a
lot of scaremongering and rumour-mongering about Ecstasy in
particular," he said. "It isn't borne out by the evidence. Ecstasy is
a remarkably safe substance, far safer than aspirin. It is far less
dangerous than tobacco or alcohol."

He added: "The prohibition regime does not work. It transfers
billions of pounds of our money into the hands of organised criminals."

The Government rejected a formal submission to the Home Office last
year by Mr Brunstrom in which he called for proscribed drugs to be legalised.