Party Vibe

I don’t think its so much a question of “bad pills” but simply the fact that two girls who are far too young were taking them, weren’t used to the effects and were probably feelign more guilty/paranoid about “doing drugs” than older teenagers would be, so they freaked out and told their olds who understandably took them to the Emergency Department.

I don’t really think people should do drugs until age 16 and even then they should try and at least get some of their high school education out of the way…

Incidentally its not illegal to own a pill testing kit and someone who tests others personal supply but is not known to the cops for serving up pills themselves is unlikely to get into trouble.

I think if the Asian countries change their views there is a chance…

Recreational drug use by the youth of many Asian countries has increased massively, and exposure to Western and particularly British rave and music culture (facilitated by the same networks used to run the call centres and outsourced companies) is one of the drivers..

At the moment China is suprisingly lenient on young drug users (they don’t even block this site from their internet!), and despite the Indian authorities arresting and drug testing everyone at a rave they very often let the users go without any further action other than attending “rehab/monitoring” centres.

Even Malaysia and Singapore seem to be executing less people these days, I don’t see as many reports of hangings as I used to (and the media report is part of the deterrent) – once again those people busted are just being sent to “rehab”

This appears to be the start of drug use being treated as a medical rather than a criminal issue. OTOH many Eastern countries they don’t have a public health service like our NHS, so unlike the UK or Europe any costs of drug use are picked up by users and their families (or they just go mad and get prison/or die).

But by and large it has not decimated the youth of Asia through addiction, mental illness and disease, nor has it made them particularly lazy and unproductive – so I think there is a distinct possibility that mindsets in the East may change (particularly when they realise how much money a regulated recreational drugs market us worth).

I suspect that decriminalisation/legalisation is possible, but we are looking at another generation or two, and its conditional on the current generations being responsible about their recreational use (which is starting to happen).