This post takes delusion to new heights.
Man I don't care that you get on the gear, just stop kidding yourself that its all hunky dory.
Look, most e presses in the civilised world are clean and easy to test. Ecstasy has never been as pure as it is right now. MDMA has never been as cheap gram for gram as it is right now. A test kit runs you about £20 and there are a number of drug charities and other organisations who keep a close eye on what's in circulation (including police forces up and down the country who seem to cite both as credible) so as to keep consumers safe.
Are you saying the Public Health Agency know less than you do? I suppose you know more than David Nutt too, the former UK government drugs adviser (fired for providing impartial advice) who said in the
Journal of Psychopharmacology that it should be downgraded to a Class B drug and was no more a risk than equestrian?
"Drug harm can be equal to harms in other parts of life. There is not much difference between horse-riding and ecstasy." - David Nutt.
The only real danger with the big presses at the moment (ie those being produced by Partyflock) is they're
too strong. That if you don't know what you're doing, you could take too much and have a bad time. Now they might be produced in the Netherlands so less relevant to Australians you could say, but drugs marketplaces on the darknet have seen their big presses (Gold Bars, Heinekens, red and yellow UPS) reach Australia, USA, etc.
Of course you have immitation pills, usually filled with PMMA, that cause a danger - that's why test strips are important. And obviously you have people who drink too much water and get water posioning because honest, open debate on drugs is stifled by silly laws and moral outrage. But as far as drugs go, assuming you test what you're buying (which you always should) and assuming you aren't consuming deadly amounts (which the vast majority don't), it doesn't get much safer than rolling.
I don't take "gear". I've struggled with depression on and off for a few years and the comedown the days following has never made it worth it. But I know people, hundreds of people, who take or have taken the stuff - thousands of drops, probably tens of thousands of drops - and they've all lived to tell the tale. Why? Because if you use a bit of common sense and exercise a bit of caution, using the widely available resources that are available, the risk
is minimal. You can like or not like that but the number of people dropping e's every weekend and not dying speaks for itself. Of the 500,000 people who took ecstasy in the UK last year, how many died? The answer is 27, and I can tell you that most of that 27 had taken impure e or were mixing with other drugs (I'm citing
DrugScope data here; one of the UK's best known drug charities)
You can also look at a place like Australia and New Zealand and see what happens when easily accessible, clean stimulant drugs aren't as widely available - people turn to shit DIY filth like crystal meth.
And I reckon this tendency to tar all drugs with the same brush is a bit counterproductive because what you get is kids running around thinking 15% purity coke cut with all sorts of garbage is no more a risk than a decent E.
