This represents the single largest seizure of ecstasy in the United States to date. If this is what they're catching, imagine what's getting through. Customs agents say a nightmare scenario would be a failure to bring the spread of this drug under control. Because of this, says Dr. Alan Leshner of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, parents need to pay attention and not dismiss it as a harmless club drug. You need to be vigilant, and you need to have zero tolerance, and you need to assume they're doing this stuff, and you'd be right.
Specialists say there is no such thing as a safe dose, a safe amount of ecstasy.
But young people will tell you differently, say Peter and Katherine Jones, whose college-age son died of an ecstasy overdose. They will deny the deaths. They will deny the studies of long-term damage to the brain. They will say that people who were harmed by the drug used megadoses or a batch that was poorly designed. They will be bulldogs into hanging on to the thing.