ECSTACY DOESN'T KILL PEOPLE, STUPIDITY DOES

It is interesting that RCMP Cpl. Scott Rintoul so openly observes the
dangers of prohibition when he says 75 per cent of the ecstacy sold
is either cut with another drug or contains no ecstacy at all.

I wonder if any of the 80 per cent of British Columbians who
regularly drink alcohol will worry about potentially lethal
adulterants the next time they take a nip.

During alcohol prohibition, overdose deaths from alcohol were common,
as were blindings.

The next time those of you who use alcohol decide to have a drink,
why don't I mix it up in my bathtub so you can have the extra rush of
not knowing if you'll come down alive?

Pharmaceutically pure MDMA (ecstasy) has been used in experimental
and therapeutic settings for decades without a single fatality.

Young people congregating, taking drugs and listening to music unique
to their generation is not an inherently evil thing.

In fact, it's been going on steadily now since the mid-1960s.

And for the ruling "boomers" to try and argue otherwise is dangerous hypocrisy.

Let's make it safer for our kids by ending prohibition.

Marcus Rummery,

Vancouver