- Question by: Louise Bloom
- Meeting date: 19 December 2001
Do you agree with the new policy of the Liberal Democrats to declassify ecstasy from a class A to a class B drug? Estimates vary, but probably 500,000 young people take ecstasy on a Friday or Saturday night. It does not do any harm whatsoever to most of them. The overall number of deaths due to ecstasy is thought to be around 80, although that is obviously slightly imprecise, so many of these clubbers do not see it as something dangerous. It is rather strange that it is in the same class as heroin, which clearly would do them harm...