Absolutely not. If you are willing to legalize something so leathal and also fairly additictive, then why not also legalize Cocaine and Heroine.
Suggesting MDMA is relatively as lethal and addictive as cocaine or heroin scares me as to how misinformed some people are about MDMA! What is meant by legalizing ecstasy is legalizing specifically
MDMA, which is not a lethal or addictive drug. MDMA loses its magic if taken even more than once every 3 months for some people, therefore most people who use actual MDMA do not use it very often. MDMA is not physically addictive. People have rarely died from MDMA alone. Out of the miniscule percentage of MDMA users that have died, almost all have died not directly from MDMA, but only when mixing MDMA with other medications. The vast majority of people that have died from ecstasy have died from a chemical other than MDMA, most notably PMA being sold as ecstasy. The problem is because MDMA is not legal, ecstasy pills containing extremely lethal drugs like PMA are commonly sold as ecstasy. This is why MDMA must be legalised. MDMA is not lethal or addictive as you suggest, but chemicals other than MDMA that are commonly sold as ecstasy are lethal and addictive.
Suggesting that if MDMA were to be legalised than cocaine and heroin could also be justifiably legalised is
INSANE. MDMA is arguably less toxic than alcohol and is hardly addictive, unlike alcohol which is physically addictive, and not nearly as lethal as alcohol which leads to alcohol poisoning or death from alcohol withdrawal. MDMA is in many people's opinion less harmful than alcohol, and alcohol is less harmful than cocaine or heroin. Heroin is undefinably more harmful than MDMA! Your suggestion is completely ludicrous! Alcohol being legal is more of an argument for legalising cocaine and heroin than legalising MDMA being an argument for legalising cocaine and heroin. Ecstasy must be legalised because of other drugs such as PMA and methamphetamine being sold in pills as "ecstasy."
Methamphetamine is lethal and addictive, and the problem with ecstasy being illegal is often ecstasy pills contain little to no MDMA and are mainly comprised of methamphetamine or even worse drugs. This is why people want MDMA to be legal. Unfortunately it is hard to consider MDMA and ecstasy to be the same thing, so this thread title would be more accurate if it was "Do You Think MDMA Should Be Legalised?
Thareputical use??!?! Just because extasy makes you feel good, does not make it thareoutical...
MDMA has been used therapeutically for marriage counseling, post traumatic stress disorder, in family sessions with a terminally ill family member to ease the fear of death, and individuals that have used it recreationally have felt therapeutic lasting bonds with loved ones and friends after using MDMA. There are many scientific studies that have shown great success in the therapeutic use of MDMA. If you would like to be more informed I would suggest taking a look at:
http://www.maps.org/mdma/
I have personally seen many people destroy their lives because of this drug and the way it can psychologically change their thinking/way of life.
This sounds a lot more like alcohol or methamphetamine than MDMA. If abused MDMA
could destroy lives, but I'd suggest whichever friends destroyed their lives from being addicted to "ecstasy" were taking a pill that contained a highly toxic and addictive chemical such as methamphetamine.
I am not against this drug one bit, but it is illegal because it's something that needs to be monitored and used with caution.
Why would MDMA be illegal because in your opinion it is something that needs to be monitored? That makes no sense. If it were
legal and regulated it would be monitored! Illegal ecstasy pills have no monitoring, cautions or warnings. To suggest they're illegal because they need to be monitored and used with caution does not make any sense to me.
If it's something that can be easily accessed, then people might think it's alright to use all the time. Which even my brain can tell you, that is NOT a good idea. Definitely does not leave you the brightest crayon in the box. Children might even use it.. like children ages 11 -13, remember when your first drink was!?! Probably WAAYY before your first pill of E, and that's becuase it's illegal =)
Legalisation and regulation with age restrictions is the only way to reduce harm. If 11-13 year olds are drinking alcohol, than there is an unfortunate possibility they may take MDMA if it were legal. They could also take it if it were illegal as an illegal dealer is more likely to sell a kid MDMA than a legitimate supplier. At least if it were legal, kids would be taking a drug that it monitored and regulated, rather than risking taking some random pill with random chemicals because it is illegal and not monitored. It's up to parents to keep drugs locked away from their children, that's why many parents put locks on their liquor cabinet. It has already been suggested that MDMA is not as harmful as alcohol, so if a 11-13 year old did get their hands on pure legal and regulated MDMA, they would be better off than taking a random pill from some dealer and they would be better off than the puking and passing out young kids that sometimes die from alcohol poisoning after drinking their parents hard liquor.
