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Ecstasy
Panic:
Salon.com
Coverage
and
Other
Info
6/16/00
The online magazine salon.com
has published stories on recently introduced but already much criticized
anti-ecstasy legislation in Congress. The story can be read on the
Salon site at http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/06/15/ecstasy_bill/.
DRCNet's recent article on
the Ecstasy panic noted that the phrase "agony of ecstasy" has been used
over and over in headlines since first appearing in 1985 ("Ecstasy Panic
Looms: 1985 All Over Again?", http://www.drcnet.org/wol/139.html#panic).
A similar phrase graces a related Salon article this week: "The agony
after ecstasy: I took the drug for nearly a year to lift myself to euphoria.
Then I crashed hard," by Liz O'Brien.
Headline issues aside, it
is important for anti-prohibitionists to always remember that while prohibition
is bad, drugs can be too. O'Brien's story can be found at http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/06/14/ecstasy/.
(Note that DRCNet neither endorses nor disputes the author's account of
her ecstasy experience, but provides the link for the purpose of free flow
of information.)
Visit the following links
for further information:
Florida Officials Seriously
Overcount "Club Drug" Deaths
http://www.drcnet.org/wol/138.html#floridacount
DanceSafe, Ecstasy Harm Reduction
Organization
http://www.dancesafe.org
Critique of Time Magazine
Ecstasy Article, by MAPS
http://www.maps.org/research/mdma/time.html
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Issue #141, 6/16/00
On Campus: Drug and Alcohol Arrests Increase, Hampshire College Students Establish Fund to Assist Drug Offenders Losing Aid, Campaign Spreads | USA Today Editorial Supports HEA Campaign, Other Press, What You Can Do | Goodbye to Peter McWilliams | Colombia Answers: Civil Society Asks US Congress to Reject "Plan Colombia" | Alert: Colombia Vote in US Senate MONDAY | Two Strains of Cannabis Politics: Hemp and Marijuana in Kentucky | Holland to Hooligans: Mellow Out, Dudes -- Dutch Authorities Use Cannabis to Tranquilize Potential Soccer Rowdies | Washington State Democratic Party Adopts Sweeping Drug Reform Planks | Follow That Story, Part I: McCarthyism in Syracuse | Follow That Story, Part II: Faint Glimmers of Hope in Texas | Hawaii: Nation's First Medical Marijuana Legislation Signed Into Law, Visiting Governors Suffer Symptoms of Contact High | Kansas City Star Strikes Again: Asset Forfeiture Series Exposes Police End-Runs Around State Laws | NEW JERSEY Alert: Whitman Joins Ecstasy Panic, Calls for New Penalties | Ecstasy Panic: Salon.com Coverage and Other Info | Alert: Help Save Freedom of Speech from the Drug War | Alert: Minnesota Medical Marijuana | Media Scan | Hepatitis Outreach Resources | Event Calendar
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