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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 John Key unconvinced by emergency doctor's call to legalise MDMA 🌿John Key unconvinced by emergency doctor's call to legalise MDMA
Prime Minister John Key is unconvinced by a doctor's claim that the pure form of ecstasy is safer than alcohol and should be legalised.
Emergency medical specialist and clinical toxicologist Paul Quigley told Fairfax Media there was mounting evidence that MDMA was one of the safest intoxicants around, especially when compared with alcohol. Liquor-related injuries and illnesses made up about two-thirds of late-night and weekend admissions at Wellington Hospital's accident and emergency department, he said.
Although Key said he had not seen any official advice on the safety of ecstasy, and was unfamiliar with Quigley's reasoning, he thought it unlikely his Government would legalise it. "Anything I've seen in relation to this drug has been deeply negative, so I can't see why it would be."
He believed the societal harm from such a move would be "very, very significant". Such legalisation would be a very different step from harnessing the...
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