BOOK EXTRACTS THE BOOK OF E: ALL ABOUT ECSTASY
Co-written with Canadian author and journalist Mireille Silcoff, first published in 2000 by Omnibus Press (UK), and currently out of print
1972 – 1985: IN THERAPY AND IN COURT
Although MDMA was never made commercially available to the American medical profession, lots of chemists were more than willing to manufacture the drug to meet the escalating demand from therapists in the early 1980s. They didn't think anything of it. It wasn't a big deal. It was all above board. While MDMA had effectively been outlawed in the UK since the 1971 Misuse Of Drugs Act, which banned all amphetamine-related substances, it remained completely legal in the US – and nobody there seemed to even question that it should be otherwise.
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BUSTS, RAIDS AND CLAMPDOWNS
'It's hard for a policeman to admit to being frightened, but I got frightened lots of times. I got frightened for my officers. I got frightened for the youngsters at the parties. We recovered four sawn-off shotguns in one night at a rave at Ockenden in Essex. We filmed security men making Rotweiller dogs attack people at Reigate in Surrey, putting 16 in hospital, and we saw them walking around with CS gas canisters. Oh, it was sinister. And it was never-ending. The moment we took one team of five villians off, another five would come in.'
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Although MDMA was never made commercially available to the American medical profession, lots of chemists were more than willing to manufacture the drug to meet the escalating demand from therapists in the early 1980s. They didn't think anything of it. It wasn't a big deal. It was all above board. While MDMA had effectively been outlawed in the UK since the 1971 Misuse Of Drugs Act, which banned all amphetamine-related substances, it remained completely legal in the US – and nobody there seemed to even question that it should be otherwise.
READ MORE
BUSTS, RAIDS AND CLAMPDOWNS
'It's hard for a policeman to admit to being frightened, but I got frightened lots of times. I got frightened for my officers. I got frightened for the youngsters at the parties. We recovered four sawn-off shotguns in one night at a rave at Ockenden in Essex. We filmed security men making Rotweiller dogs attack people at Reigate in Surrey, putting 16 in hospital, and we saw them walking around with CS gas canisters. Oh, it was sinister. And it was never-ending. The moment we took one team of five villians off, another five would come in.'
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