Asian governments are not portraying Ecstasy as the No. 1 drug threat.
The physiology and psychology of addiction are imperfectly understood, but if addictiveness is truly the criterion for a ban, then booze and cigarettes should be banned, not cannabis and ecstasy.
And as if this was not enough to ignite ecstasy around Stamford Bridge, the roars were deafening as news of Birmingham City's late equaliser against Arsenal filtered through.
The Lancet article was co-authored by David Nutt, a professor and Britain's former chief drug adviser, who caused controversy last year after he published an article saying ecstasy was not as dangerous as riding a horse.
The reason why possession of small quantities of cocaine or ecstasy is not treated as a serious offence is because, like it or not, the casual use of these drugs is now as common as use of cannabis became in the 1970s.
That was not the case almost 20 years ago, when he developed something similar to ecstasy but not nearly as potent.
Not surprisingly, there is euphoria and ecstasy.
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The death of a man in Liverpool is not yet being linked with other fatalities which could have been caused by contaminated ecstasy, say police.
The Cambridge team looked at 66 ecstasy users, 30 cannabis users and 28 non-drug users who had not used any drug.
The proponents of Ecstasy have used this sorry turn of events to argue that the drug is not as dangerous as its opponents would have it.
Ah well, says the next reasonable person, you are surely not going to compare non-payment of a parking fine with alleged consumption of cocaine and ecstasy, are you?
O'Connor: Some studies by the NIDA which show that three weeks after taking Ecstasy, it looks like those seratonin receptors are still potentially damaged and that seratonin is not being taken in like a normal brain.
Whatever the size of the audience, being a stand-up comedian, alone on the stage in front of an audience that may or may not be friendly, with only a microphone to hold on to, is agony if you flop, and ecstasy if it likes you.
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