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Volunteers to take ecstasy pills live on Channel 4 « Posted: 11 May 2011 at 07:43 PM »

Drugs Live, a four-part science series, will look at the effect of illegal drugs and alcohol on the body.
Announcing a raft of new programmes, Jay Hunt, Channel 4's chief creative officer, said the future for the broadcaster lay in taking ''real risks''.
She said: ''When you look across the broadcast landscape, when other broadcasters are more conservative, it's never been more important for Channel 4 to stimulate debate, to challenge the status quo, and above all to be brave.''
Introducing the Drugs Live project, she said: ''The Government's drugs tsar Professor (David) Nutt was sacked for claiming that LSD and ecstasy were less harmful than alcohol.
''In an incredibly bold experiment we are going to be putting that to the test live, looking at the impact all of those substances have on the human body in a clinical environment.''

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8507251/Volunteers-to-take-ecstasy-pills-live-on-Channel-4.html


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Re: Volunteers to take ecstasy pills live on Channel 4 « Reply #1 Posted: 11 May 2011 at 08:06 PM »

I cant see how any good can come from it at all... and... isnt it illegal to take these drugs or buy them or possess them? So arent channel 4 breaking the law?


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Re: Volunteers to take ecstasy pills live on Channel 4 « Reply #2 Posted: 11 May 2011 at 11:42 PM »

i can remember years ago there was a program on TV on how dangerous it was to drink and drive. they got some people to drive on a simulator and then got them to drink and have another go. Most of them performed better after a couple of drinks. The embarrassed organiser put it down to the fact that they had got used to the simulator. These things don't work well on live TV methinks.

If these people have a good experience with ecstasy it would be a good advert for it.


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Re: Volunteers to take ecstasy pills live on Channel 4 « Reply #3 Posted: 12 May 2011 at 08:01 AM »

I've seen the damage these drugs can do to life first hand!
I myself have never touched any of these drugs, as I was never tempted or intrested in them.
I was into the Acid House/Rave Scene from 1987 - 1996.
Quite a few of my mates of the time were taking ecstasy/Trips/LSD etc..
Two of my mates got so deep into the drugs it took its toll on them mentally.
One was tripping out so bad, he ended up in hospital after eating busted glass!! yep you heard me right, busted glass!! When asked months later why he had done this, his reply was "I was tripping that much, I though I was eating Pop corn!!!"
The other mate developed deep depression and paranioa, was always thinking everything and everyone was watching him and out to get him.
We once went to an open air Bioligy Rave in 1989, and he took off across a field screaming. When we found him, he was cowering under a hedge sobbing like a baby!
He later told us, The big metal Pylons in the field where we were, started ripping their own cables off and uprooted them selves and started marching across the field towards him!
He was always having hallucinations, or "Bad Trips" as it were due to over indulgence of "E" or LSD.
In the end, he got so depressed and paranoid, he locked himself in his flat for ages, refusing to see or talk to anyone. In the end the landloard forced entry to his flat aided by the police, only to find he had comitted suicide by hanging himself!
A few of my mates who done "E" have never been able to hold down a job,have mental issues due to the long term effects of the drug.
One success of a come back from being an addict, has to be mine and my wifes friend.
She got into the rave scene, and her fella of the time was a known dealer who got her hooked on "E" and cocaine in 1991.
She was a complete mess, and we lost contact with her in 1996.
We tracked her down in 2005, and she's clean now, got a job, a new fella and is getting married soon.
But as she told us, she'd hit rock bottom in 1998, two failed attempts at suicide, living rough and prostitution.
She's still on anti depression tablets, and her speech and reaction is slow, but shes happy shes turned her life around before it was to late.
These Drugs wreck lives! and I think what this program is about to attempt is extremly dangerous and should not be allowed. Angry


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Re: Volunteers to take ecstasy pills live on Channel 4 « Reply #4 Posted: 12 May 2011 at 01:46 PM »

You are probably a similar age to my son Smiley he was doing the rounds of Raves in the late 80's he was never interested in taking or even trying drugs (he did get carted home after too much lager haha) but he now has two friends dead and one lovely lad who has been half his lifetime in various mental health programmes and only now is he starting to make something of his life about twenty years too late he used to see faces in carrier bags curtains etc I remeber one night he slept outside my house ( I didnt know he was there till after) because he said he felt safe near me and my son. Very very sad I don't like the idea of the programme it could be a) dangerous or b) voyaristic


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Re: Volunteers to take ecstasy pills live on Channel 4 « Reply #5 Posted: 12 May 2011 at 05:52 PM »

Quote from: funkychick on 12 May 2011 at 01:46 PM

it could be a) dangerous or b) voyaristic

I think it will be both.


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Re: Volunteers to take ecstasy pills live on Channel 4 « Reply #6 Posted: 12 May 2011 at 07:29 PM »

i have tried cannibis and it made me feel awful,panic attacks parnoia felt i was not real.i thank god it did make me feel like that never bothered with it,but i can see how one could be addicted i was to fags gave up 6months back not easy but not hard.
i have had to put my son to bed ratted before now but thankfully he no drinks now.i brought up by my nan she alchholic,awful living with one.i thank god i go straight into the hangover stage miss the tipsy bit so can not drink that much....it all by grace of god cos could happen to anyone if take wrong step in life..see so many young people i knew as children got into drugs they got poor quality of life.I would think this tv program as you say against law,can not see it being shown.
I think of Wordworth poem 'the little celadine'about little flower that has same chemicals as opium poppy,the poet was high as kite on it.strange that some of the best poetry written was by poets who brains befuddle with drugs


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Re: Volunteers to take ecstasy pills live on Channel 4 « Reply #7 Posted: 12 May 2011 at 07:30 PM »

Edit: Sorry Snowdrop, I removed your post as I thought that someone might decide to try it.!


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Re: Volunteers to take ecstasy pills live on Channel 4 « Reply #8 Posted: 12 May 2011 at 11:35 PM »

my wife works in a mental health establishment which contains mostly young people whose minds have been broken simply by smoking weed. they'll never get better and at best will learn to live with it.


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Re: Volunteers to take ecstasy pills live on Channel 4 « Reply #9 Posted: 15 May 2011 at 11:47 PM »

Anyone remember Leah Betts who died after taking her first ever Exctasy pill? My cousins best mate from school. Stopped my cousin ever experimenting with drugs, big shock.

Salvia actually IS now illegal, as are most of the previous 'legal highs'. New law came into effect 1st May this year.


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