Taiwan Students Demand Legal Ecstasy And Sex Orgies

Student leaders in Taiwan attacked the 'ludicrous conservative mentality' of authorities in the South- East Asian country this week and called for drugs including ecstasy and ketamine to be legalised.

"The student representatives said that private sex parties, orgies and drugs are common facts in today's society," local press agency Taiwan News reported, "(and claimed) the authorities 'cannot face this fact squarely'."

Taiwan's drugs' chief Lee Jih-Heng rejected the students' calls out of hand, meaning Taiwanese clubs are still likely to be vulnerable to police raids of the type described by The Taipei Times revealed last November.

"Pubs and hotels (even the Grand Hyatt Taipei last month) are routinely busted," said the Times.

"Legal advice regarding the civil liberties aspect of being arbitrarily manhandled by the police and possibly urine tested is sobering. The police have powers to search if they have reasonable suspicion and can demand a urine sample if they think you may have taken drugs."
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