Deadly pill alert issued for London

One man died and two more were left in serious but stable conditions recently after falling ill at South London nightclubs the Fridge and Fire within hours of each other. Lambeth police warned that a danger batch of pills was to blame and advised clubbers to seek immediate medical attention if feeling unwell after using drugs. “The tablets we are concerned about are described as pink with small white dots on them,” a Lambeth police spokesman told PinkNews.co.uk. “Another is a white tablet with the letter G pictured on it with various numbers appearing on the reverse of the pill. One example is the number ‘0030’,” he added.

The latest E related tragedy came months after top cop Richard Brunstrom, the chief constable of North Wales, called for ecstasy to be legalised, a view endorsed by Danny Kushlick, from drugs charity Transform. “The reason that people call ecstasy ‘pills’ is because we have no idea what goes into them,” Danny told the Independent in January. “If prohibition was brought to an end, we could see the introduction of proper ingredients lists, health warnings and quality control,” he pointed out.

Free-thinking Labour MP Paul Flynn also addressed the issue several years ago, similarly pointing out the perils of prohibition. “I want drugs to be controlled and regulated, but we do not want to allow what has happened over the past thirty years to continue, whereby, in an illegal market, criminals – irresponsible people – sell poisoned drugs that kill young people,” he said. “We want to say to those irresponsible people that we will control them, take their market away and not allow young people to be their victims any more,” he added.

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kev0069 says...

on May 19th, 2008

legalise....ooo yea!!!

SlicyDicer says...

on May 19th, 2008

to make MDMA legal is a slippery slope toward anarchy. Besides isnt something more fun when there's a risk involved

tone_loc says...

on May 19th, 2008

isn't it more anarchic to have a large number of otherwise law-abiding people forced to become criminals just because they want to enjoy themselves with something other than alcohol or tobacco?

TheDon says...

on May 20th, 2008

Pills shouldn't be legal!! They make you go nuts for a bit and do stupid things and see things too. And hugs people you don't like. And they make sex sort of tricky sometimes. They should be cheaper though.

Blinky-Live- says...

on May 29th, 2008

Damn hippies

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