Dancing with Molly

[mostly-human]

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/dancing-with-molly-20121203-2ar04.html


Positive article from The Age newspaper in Australia (Fairfax publishing).

Excerpt "Taken mainly as a party drug, ecstasy causes the user to be more energetic and alert. It lowers aggression and anxiety, leads to euphoria and creates increased empathy and a sense of intimacy with others. ...

Many experts Fairfax Media spoke to for this story say there is overwhelming evidence ecstasy is significantly less dangerous than alcohol for the user and society generally. And the word from users is when it is available, they choose it over drinking...

The most comprehensive study of the top 20 recreational drugs was carried out in 2010 by the British Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD), which ranked them from most to least harmful using a range of weighted criteria.
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The results were published in the medical journal The Lancet and have been reported worldwide. Alcohol was found to be most harmful to society and fifth most harmful to users, making it the most harmful drug overall. Ecstasy, on the other hand, causes almost no harm to society and scored very low on the harm done to the user, coming in at 17th overall. Cannabis (legalised in two US states last month) came in eighth."


Whole article is much longer, there's also a survey to take at the end.



(Sorry for cross-post in AusDD not sure on rules re cross posting - hope it's OK if relevant.)

 

[poledriver]

Hey mostly human, the cross posting is ok for a decent article that fits into both sections, but unfortunately it has been posted already in both sections. Best thing to do on here is scan down the first page before you post, especially if you do not come on here every day and read the articles, most people keep the article title the same so it is pretty easy to find usually...

In this case edgarshade has posted it a day or so ago here -

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/655287-AU-Dancing-with-Molly

And on AusDD check the parent topic first as it is sometimes within that thread, as in this case it is inside the mdxx thread.

Thanks for posting tho and keep it up. It's a good article.