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Crackdown
on
Ecstasy
in
Malaysia
1/14/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/370/malaysia.shtml
It was a less than happy
beginning to the new year for patrons of the Techno Discotheque in Bandar
Sri Damansara, Malaysia, last week as police enforcing a crackdown on the
popular club drug Ecstasy arrested 261 of them, including two policemen
and two soldiers, for using the happy pills. The official charge
is "consumption of Ecstasy." The raid came late in the night on New
Year's Day, the New Straits Times reported.
Along with 239 Malaysians,
the raid scooped up 22 foreigners from China, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh.
The unfortunates were held in jail until January 6, when they were hauled
in four police trucks to the court compound and ordered to sit in the courtyard
under armed guard during the daylong proceedings. Some were able
to make bail that day, while others returned to jail to await trial or
sentencing. Of the 261, 121 used last week's court date to plead
guilty. None of the accused were represented by attorneys.
The New Year's Day bust is
only the latest in a series of raids against clubs and discos designed
to root out Ecstasy use in the Southeast Asian nation, where, as elsewhere,
it is popular with youthful middle-class Malaysians and foreign tourists.
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