America's DEA Reconsider Ecstasy's Club Drug Status

Agents from America's anti drug secret police the DEA said this week that ecstasy use has become so widespread that they no longer associate it with nightclubs.

"We really changed our view on it as a club drug," New Jersey special agent Alexander Gourley told The Herald News.

"Now we're seeing it at house parties."

Fellow secret drug cop Mark Moger agreed.

"Years ago, people would only use X (ecstasy) when they'd go to a rave or a club," he said.

"Now they use it every day at small parties."

The officers' frank admissions came as the DEA approaches its 30th birthday, an anniversary which prompted health journalist Bruce Mirken to dub their war on drugs 'perhaps the cruellest, most spectacular policy failure in the history of the republic.'

"To most sentient beings, the DEA's record of utter failure at what is theoretically its principal job - keeping drugs out of the hands of kids - suggests it might be time to rethink the notion that we can arrest and jail our way out of the drug abuse problem," said Mr Mirken (Alternet.org).

"If some 15 million marijuana arrests since (President) Nixon took office have made no dent in the marijuana supply, why should another 15 million do the trick-"
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