Good post jumpy. Its typical of the DM to take this sort of line with a subject like this. I'd also be interested in just how accurate their claim that 50 people a year die from ecstacy poisonig is, the DM has a nasty habit of taking stats out of context or massaging the figures to back up its agenda.
The danger of ecstasy use really has to be put into perspective. IIRC around a couple of million ecstasy tablets are consumed every week in the UK, yet the numbers of deaths are relatively small when compared to deaths related to Alcohol and tobacco for example; or even drugs such as aspirin and peracetamol. A group of scientists recently carried out a study to find which drugs had the most adverse affect on people and society and guess which two came out on top? Yes legal drugs alcohol and tobacco.
If you simply want to look at numbers of deaths then you would probably prevent more by banning cars than banning ecstasy.
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