That would be assuming that the police were there to promote public safety and harm reduction – which based…

The interreactions of these chemicals with each other is completely unpredictable. In the past NZ ecstasy has largely been moderate dose MDMA.

What we should have got was a warning of a "Bad E" trend, like the bad acid warning in the woodstock movie, but we got this interference when…

The police seize street ecstasy pills and ESR test them.

The police put out a statement saying:

Recent tests have revealed that pills submitted for analysis as suspected MDMA (commonly referred to as "ecstasy") have been found to contain other illicit drugs…

If you want quality and strict measurements then you buy a retail product that is labelled. That is no reason to criminalise those of us who prefer to purchase it in other ways.

I guess so, but given that random dosage from cowboy operators seems to be the cause of…

I currently purchase my BZP legally by the gram (not from dairies however). And its the only way I can actually consume it (I gag on pills of any type, I…

Regulating BZP won't stop E from containing BZP ...

But it will prevent the surprise-package dosages of BZP that seem to have been an issue in Christchurch. When some kid necks a freelance party pill that turns out to be five times stronger than the next one is when you…

:-P

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I'm surprise that this BZP thing still keeps being a story, and one that keeps escalating, with more media heat being applied. I wrote this song BZP almost two years ago, and nothing much has changed since then. It's still a storm in a pee cup.

One focuses on the crime impact. (This was yesterday's front page story).

Heroin addicts commit on average 432 crimes a year, costing a…

And meanwhile, we learn that there were 218 P lab busts next year. Hello? P is a Class A drug, and deservedly so. Why are…

I really can't imagine an X+BZP mixture is more dangerous than the standard X+Speed or X+P that we're used to. What exactly is the issue here? "Drug dealers are dishonest"?

The stuff on Pill Reports suggests that there's some weirder things going into pills across the Tasman, including 2CB (alright…

That's a fairly fundamental part of the story to get wrong.

And they had to ignore the opening line of the police press release to do it.

I only caught the end of the interview with the ESR guy on National yesterday afternoon, so didn't pick up on the actual…

This 'X cut with BZP' notion has a loud ring of truth about it. Right now in Wellington there is a lot of X around, but it is cheap X, and it has a shitty BZP-like comedown. But I'm not convinced that…

Cutting illegal substances with BZP to up the profits, that I can believe.

Of course. The newspapers, whether wilfully or not, just got it arse-about.

I suspect that the best option is to make (relatively) safe ecstasy available via pharmacies. Getting high-quality ecstasy from a known supplier would likely result in a collapse of the P market (as well as that of the less-than-great BZPs) and probably a drop in alcohol-related crime.

I suspect that…

Case in point:…

Quite. Meanwhile we appear to losing our war on drugs

Short of universal, compulsory, and frequent blood tests, the authorities will never realise their wetdream of a pharmacologically compliant society.

With regards ecstasy, methamphetamine, LSD and the like, it's less of a War on Drugs and more of a War…

As it turns…

It would make pefect criminal sense to make up some shit, put it in packaging that makes it look like a legal product, and bang – whole new market.

Yes, that makes sense, but including in that shit mdme & speed would be as sensible as the last drug rumour -…

parents object to pot as much because it's smoking as because it's drugs, and they favour a public health approach over a criminal justice approach.

And of course, we can't have little Jonny going to jail for smoking a bit of weed, can we – 'cos "we" (the parents) did…

John – very unimpressed with that story – was surprised to see you run something like that.

I think they put themselves in a risky position when they went with a story focusing on a staff member.

It's very hard to turn around and contradict someone in a position like…

Lost in all this is the public's health. For Gods sake, if a bung pill is out there then just fucking tell people. The police have a duty to tell the community the colour, name, and general description of any pill that has hurt or killed anyone.

Quite right. I…

Will Campbell Live followup their recent story* on the party pill coma if new evidence comes out about what was consumed by the 23 years old (and son of a TV3 staffer). If so,…