Further to reports of deaths linked to green ecstasy tablets with a Rolex or apple symbol being sold in Ireland, Concerned Citizen writes:
“Old media are in the throws of hysteria today. Any chance broadsheet could counteract the “just say no” line from HSE and government and put some real info out there and maybe kickstart a decent discussion that’s not all half truths and scaremongering.
PMA (or sometimes PMAA) adulterated ecstacy are what is causing deaths. Vice did a good article on this a while back, good overview for the uninitiated: “You’ve got so many complicating factors in a prohibitive market that it makes harm reduction almost impossible. When you have no quality control and, at the same time, no enforcement, this is the likely outcome. Sadly, this is the kind of thing that will continue to happen.”
People will continue to die until something is done, the government need to wake up and get real with proper harm reduction strategies for all forms of drug misuse and abuse. Prohibition is killing these kids.
The numbers are way off skewed as well because a lot of families will keep it hushed for obvious reasons if someone dies from taking an illegal drug. I know of at least one family that did this. The stigma attached is causing the true numbers of deaths to go unreported.
Kids are not going to stop taking these drugs at the weekend, particularly given the fact that what is being thrown at them from the papers is rubbish and they know it. Why should they believe any of it?”
MORE: Killer Pills: Myth Or Murder (Mixmag)
PMA – the ecstasy and the agony (Guardian, October 2013)
(Pic: Vice)
