Items tagged with ecstasy
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As the mayor of Amsterdam, I can see the Netherlands risks becoming a narco-state [05.01.2024] | In the Netherlands, we used to look on the international “war on drugs” with a certain amount of disdain. Its solutions were prohibition, criminalisa ... |
Instant fines for drug possession in Belgium: €1,000 for cocaine [06.08.2023] | More than a thousand immediate fines were levied in Belgium for possession of drugs during July alone, mainly at festivals, according to Justice Mini ... |
This guy plans to open a store that sells heroin, meth, and crack [06.01.2023] | A Vancouver man is planning to open what would be Canada’s first store that sells heroin, cocaine, meth, MDMA, and other drugs as a way to reduce the ... |
High street? Dutch ecstasy ‘shop’ shows possible way for drug reform [18.08.2022] | For campaigners advocating drug liberalisation, it is an image that is almost too good to be true: a store down a cobbled street in Utrecht legally s ... |
Prohibited Plants [18.08.2022] | Across the world, the state of environmental stress is unprecedented. As scholarship and activism on ‘environmental justice’ points out, poorer and m ... |
Legalise ecstasy and cannabis to combat drugs crime: think tank [23.06.2022] | Dutch drugs criminality could be tackled by legalising ecstasy and cannabis and by a taking a much tougher approach to cocaine smuggling, an independ ... |
Dutch police busted fewer cannabis plantations, drug labs last year [04.04.2022] | The police busted and dismantled fewer synthetic drug labs and cannabis plantations last year, latest figures show. The number of discovered drug lab ... |
Coming out about illicit drug use: ‘The hush-hush attitude has to end’ [17.07.2021] | The ultimate goal of a campaign by charity Unharm called Let’s be honest/Change the story, is to decriminalise all drug use in Australia by 2030. One ... |
MDMA gangs are literally polluting Europe [18.06.2021] | Noxious dumps in “drug pits” is one of many new ways drug gangs in the Netherlands and Belgium are disposing of the toxic waste created in one of the ... |
Drug use steady despite lockdowns: EU agency [09.06.2021] | The severe restrictions on movement and activities during the coronavirus pandemic had little effect on Europeans' appetite for illegal drugs in 2020 ... |
Will XTC-Shops replace dealers in the future? [02.03.2021] | It’s Friday night. You’re planning on going to a festival with your friends. But first you take your bicycle and you take a trip to the ‘XTC-shop’. T ... |
Government urged to sell cocaine and ecstasy in pharmacies [19.10.2020] | Cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines should be “nationalised” and sold legally in government-run pharmacies to undermine global drug-related crime, the ... |
Psychedelic drugs could help treat the mental health epidemic we'll face after coronavirus [20.05.2020] | Most of us have fixed views about drugs like ecstasy or LSD. The majority of us think they are dangerous and should remain illegal. Fear of these dru ... |
It’s time to admit it: Drug dealers should be considered essential workers [19.05.2020] | Over the past few weeks, we’ve heard stories about how the pandemic has disrupted the global narcotics trade. In Mexico, it’s messing up business for ... |
Australia could be the first country to legalise ecstasy – are we going too far? [04.10.2019] | Matt Noffs, the chief executive of the Ted Noffs Foundation and a spokesman for the Take Control Campaign for Safer, Saner Drug Laws, and Alex Wodak, ... |
Drugs researchers: ‘No such thing as victimless cocaine’ [01.10.2019] | Together with prevention worker Judith Noijen of the Jellinek Clinic, crimninologist Ton Nabben published the 25th edition of Antenne, a large-scale ... |
Feds 'obsessed' with cannabis laws as Barr opens door to MDMA reform [27.09.2019] | Chief Minister Andrew Barr says the federal government should stick to trying to beat dangerous drug gangs instead of becoming "obsessed" with the AC ... |
Breaking Brabant: Drug labs blight a Dutch landscape [22.07.2019] | North Brabant is Europe's biggest producer of synthetic drugs, such as ecstasy and amphetamine. In 2017, 21 active ecstasy laboratories were dismantl ... |
The profile of festival drug takers might be different to what you expect [18.07.2019] | A NSW Coronial Inquest investigating a series of drug-related deaths at Australian music festivals has heard evidence of festival goers taking multip ... |
'Chinese Ecstasy' drug linked to 125 deaths has arrived in Britain, NCA warns festival goers [02.06.2019] | A new ecstasy-like drug produced in China that has been linked to at least 125 deaths is feared to have spread to Britain, the National Crime Agency ... |
How to legalize every drug [22.05.2019] | As Canada continues to work out the kinks of legalizing cannabis—and jurisdictions around the world follow suit—harm reduction advocates and drug pol ... |
How the world’s oldest drug checking service makes high-risk pills “unsellable” [01.05.2019] | The Drugs Monitoring and Information System (DIMS) in the Netherlands can proudly claim to be the oldest drug checking service in the world. It began ... |
Calls for drug law reform in Sweden as drug deaths continue unabated [18.04.2019] | The debate around Sweden’s zero-tolerance drug policy has been reignited in recent months, due to the approach’s failure to reduce drug deaths. Swede ... |
Home Office gives green light to first drug testing clinic [24.02.2019] | The first drug-checking service licensed by the Home Office will allow users to have their illicit substances tested without fear of being arrested i ... |
Israel approves compassionate use of MDMA to treat PTSD [10.02.2019] | MDMA, popularly known as ecstasy, is a drug more commonly associated with raves and nightclubs than a therapist's office. Emerging research has shown ... |
Illicit drugs should be regulated and distributed by pharmacies, leading doctor suggests [30.01.2019] | A leading drug reform advocate and esteemed doctor is calling for a shake up to the illicit drug market, suggesting substances like MDMA, marijuana a ... |
I'm 'coming out' about drugs: it's time get real about pill testing [21.01.2019] | As a politician I’ve made the difficult decision to "come out" in this way because the government’s zero-tolerance approach to drugs has not only bee ... |
'We're dealing with a black market': is taking pills becoming more dangerous? [15.01.2019] | Prof Alison Ritter, a public health academic from the University of New South Wales, agreed that there had been an “explosion” in new types of substa ... |
Damning review of synthetics law [19.12.2018] | The long-overdue review of the Psychoactive Substances Act paints a damning, but unsurprising, picture of the law’s failing. The Act was put in place ... |
Gov't urged to regulate ecstasy production [17.12.2018] | The Dutch government should regulate the production of party drug ecstasy to remove it from the criminal circuit, GroenLinks parliamentarian Kathalij ... |
Taking stock: A decade of drug policy [22.10.2018] | ‘Taking stock: A decade of drug policy’ evaluates the impacts of drug policies implemented across the world over the past decade, using data from the ... |
We from the police advise: more money and powers for the police [07.09.2018] | The study 'The Netherlands and synthetic drugs: An inconvenient truth' by the Dutch police academy on the role of the Netherlands in the production o ... |
Netherlands ‘market leader’ in production and trade synthetic drugs [27.08.2018] | The Netherlands is world leader in the production and trading of synthetic drugs such as ecstasy and amphetamines, with total turnover up to 2017 est ... |
Could psychedelics transform mental health? [01.07.2018] | Psychedelic drugs are more likely to be associated with hippies and the counterculture of the 1960s than people in white lab coats and clinical trial ... |
We went undercover in a Chinese MDMA factory [29.05.2018] | We want to understand why MDMA is today so cheap, so pure, and so abundant across the UK and the EU. Since 2012, pills have doubled or tripled in str ... |
Ecstasy and cocaine are getting stronger, Dutch drug analysis shows [16.05.2018] | Ecstasy pills are becoming stronger and cocaine sold on the streets is more pure, according to a new report by the addiction centre Trimbos Institute ... |
We already know how to stop people dying from drugs – but the Government refuses to do it [02.08.2017] | Last year saw the highest number of drug-related deaths since records began in 1993. More than half of these deaths involved an opiate, such as heroi ... |
Party drug ecstasy’s innocent image is wrong: Trimbos report [15.06.2017] | The image of ecstasy as an innocent party drug is wrong and although many people end up in hospital after taking a pill, few ever go public about the ... |
More fentanyl being found in MDMA, crystal meth in Victoria [12.06.2017] | When Victoria pharmacist Alain Vincent began testing local street drugs for the presence of fentanyl, he knew it would be found in heroin. He was sur ... |
The expanding universe of synthetic drugs [20.05.2017] | The 20th century saw new drugs created from scratch: amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines and more. It also saw a far more spirited, if often ... |
Dutch lead the west in online drugs sales: report [15.08.2016] | The online sale of illegal drugs is higher per head of the Dutch population than in any other major western country, according to a new report commis ... |
Festival drug checking is here, but it now needs to be expanded across the country [07.08.2016] | A step towards safer drug use came about recently with the UK’s first drug-checking service at the Secret Garden Party festival. Operated by The Loop ... |
Ecstasy is getting stronger, drug testing clinic warns [03.05.2016] | The amount of active ingredients in ecstasy pills in the Netherlands has almost doubled in 10 years, according to the Trimbos addiction institute, wh ... |
Pill testing trial to begin at Sydney music festivals, vows drug expert Alex Wodak [27.02.2016] | The Australian drug expert who pioneered the nation's first legal injecting centre is on a collision course with the Baird government and NSW Police ... |
Call to make ecstasy legal and sell it at pharmacies [04.07.2015] | Australians should be able to buy a pure form of ecstasy from their local pharmacy to curtail the harm caused by contaminated blackmarket pills. Melb ... |
Doctor: Legalisation of pure MDMA should be considered [18.06.2015] | Dr Paul Quigley, an emergency medicine specialist and clinical toxicologist at Wellington Hospital, says the legalisation of pure MDMA - the main ing ... |
First ‘ecstasy’ shop opens in Amsterdam [19.05.2015] | A Dutch political movement is calling for the legalization of the psychoactive drug ecstasy – and has opened a shop to promote its cause. The youth w ... |
This is what's actually in your ecstasy [01.04.2015] | The latest data on ecstasy – taken from pills seized by police in England and Wales between July and October of last year – reveals that the average ... |
The judge who allowed ecstasy and ketamine to be legalised explains why he did it [09.03.2015] | Judge Gerard Hogan made an unexpected decision to allow for the possession of some drugs in a ruling on an appeal with the backing of two of his judi ... |
Drugs in the UK: Why we need to talk about regulation and decriminalisation [30.01.2015] | Fighting the war on drugs in the UK costs an estimated £13 billion annually. It has cost lives recently, too; four people died after taking ecstasy p ... |
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