herbie herbie:
We're missing the point here. These two died. The other half million kids who took ecstasy didn't.
Find out WHY and if someone sold them bad shit, charge 'em with dealing AND manslaughter.
Just using this as an example and saying 'drugs are bad, mmm-kay?' didn't work 40 years ago and still doesn't work. ( I don't mean stop telling them that, merely that they don't bloody listen.)
Actually so far, as far as I know, there is no proof that they used E or any other drug besides alcohol. ETOH was at very high levels, but presumably if they died of alcohol poisoning it would be known by now. But it's jumping the gun to assume they died of E.
$1:
Whereas some people only vomit when
they have consumed too much alcohol,
other people just fall asleep (with or
without vomiting) after they have
consumed too much alcohol. In these
people, death can follow in one of two
ways: you may fall into a deep sleep and
vomit while sleeping. What’s the result?
You choke on your own vomit because
you are too intoxicated to wake up and
clear out your airway. In other instances,
you simply fall asleep and never wake up,
because the concentration of alcohol is
so high that the areas of your brain
controlling life functions are so depressed
they stop functioning, and so do you.
$1:
According to the Home Office there have been over 200 reported ecstasy-related deaths in the UK since 1996, however other sources suggest that the drug is "far safer than aspirin." So what's the truth?
The 2008 BBC Horizon Programme Is alcohol worse than ecstasy? examined a call by experts to use modern knowledge to update the drug policies first put in place in 1971. "Recent research has analysed the link between the harmful effects of drugs relative to their current classification by law... Perhaps most startling of all is that alcohol, solvents and tobacco (all unclassified drugs) are rated more dangerous than ecstasy, 4-MTA and LSD (all class A drugs)," the programme reported.
In fact, ecstasy ranked 18th in the list of 20 drugs, with one being most harmful. It came just above Poppers (19) and Khat (20), which are both legal and have not caused any known deaths.
$1:
The death rate for MDMA, assuming that there really were about 60 deaths directly caused by MDMA in 2000, would be roughly 2 in 100,000 users. The death rate from smoking, by contrast, is on the order of 400 per 100,000 users. Even alcohol, America's official "it's not really a drug" drug, nets about 50 deaths per 100,000 users each year:[3]
CKA Uber 
CKA Uber 
