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Newsbrief:
Stiffer
Ecstasy
Penalties
Would
Hit
Penn
State
University
8/9/02
A bill introduced in the
county legislature in Centre County, PA, the home of Penn State University,
would heighten the penalties for sales of MDMA (ecstasy) to make them equal
to the penalties for heroin distribution, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported
this week. According to the report, the bill is being pushed by a
cabal of Republican drug warriors, including the local District Attorney,
the Pennsylvania Attorney General, GOP gubernatorial candidate Mike Fisher
and local state Sen. Jake Corman.
Taking advantage of a recent
ecstasy bust in the area and an ecstasy-related death last November, the
politicos claimed the bill would help convince young people that the drug
is not harmless. But for the millions of people who use ecstasy in
the US each weekend without dying, bills such as the one proposed in Centre
County raise the specter of real, long-time harm.
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Issue #249, 8/9/02
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