UN: Global Use Of Ecstasy Soaring

[dArKeR]

The supply and use of synthetic drugs such as Ecstasy and amphetamines is soaring worldwide in part because the public doesn't realize how dangerous they can be, a U.N. report said Tuesday.

The report, presented at a news conference in Rome, estimated that global use of Ecstasy rose by 70 percent between 1995-1997 and 2000-2001, while use of amphetamines rose by 40 percent over the same period.

More than 40 million people worldwide, or 1 percent of all people 15 years or older, used amphetamine-type stimulants, known as ATS, in 2000-2001, the report said.

The report said that seizures of these stimulants rose from around four tons in 1990-1991 to almost 40 tons in 2000-2001 and estimated the global value of the ATS industry at around US$65 billion each year.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/23/health/main574716.shtml

[Feanorcurufinwe]

1. slightly off

instead of

"in part because the public doesn't realize how dangerous they can be"

it should be:

"in part because the public realizes they aren't as dangerous as they are hyped to be"

[pretzel4gore]

2. the pusherman

got fuken nerve to complain about 'illegal' stuff like speed or pot etc....while they push diazapam and prozak and viagra ritalin plus alcohol and tobacco etc at enormous cost to us (and nice profits) to their fat fuken pig selves!....the real poison being pushed by the MAN is the lying crap the mediawhores crank out every goddam day! If a responsible press was at work, people wouldn't be so stressed they need dope to get away (from bushinc and asscrack and rushlimbo and 'COPS' ad nazism)!
Hang them all, let lucifer sort em out!

[kalian]

3. And...do you know WHO is behind the Ecstasy drug trade...?

Hmmm...? :eyes:

[frank frankly]

5. the BFEE!

From the Golden Triangle and back...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. That's it!!!!

Bush was high on ecstasy when he decided to invade Iraq.