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MDMA 'disappearing' from UK clubs
The BBC has reported that fake ‘ecstasy pills’, GLB and still currently legal alternative mephedrone are rapidly replacing MDMA in the UK, as authorities have tightened controls worldwide on MDMA precursor chemicals.
The British media organisation said police busts for ecstasy have collapsed from 1197 in London in 2006, to just 331 in 2009 as criminals have switched to manufacturing pills containing BZP and other chemicals. “If you can’t buy it, you can’t buy it – that could be to do with this issue of precursor chemicals,” Drugscope chief Harry Shapiro told the BBC.
“If you lack the chemicals to make it there will be less around. The figures suggest MDMA is harder to get at the moment than it was.”
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polite_society says...
Ironically doesn't BZP have worse side effects than MDMA? So basically the police have succeeded in causing more harm than good.