Ecstasy safer than Peanuts: New Scientist
“Say you have to decide whether to give a stranger a peanut or ecstasy. Which is safest’ Ecstasy, of course.
“A much larger percentage of people suffer a fatal acute reaction to peanuts than to MDMA.”
The New Scientist editorial (11 February), while acknowledging that ecstasy is still dangerous, goes on to lament out-of-proportion drug policies that kowtow to the tabloid press instead of to rational evidence.
