Plan to take drugs at a festival? Do it in Europe…
As the European festival summer reaches its end, pill analysis reveals Europe's festivalgoers have access to the world's purest ecstasy: 67.1%, compared to 16% in Oz
News By | 22 August 2017
New research in the US has laid bare the huge variations in the MDMA content of ecstasy pills in circulation internationally, with European festivalgoers having access to the purest pills – and Australians the least.
The research, shared with IQ by drug rehabilitation service American Addiction Centers (AAC), will further fuel calls for widespread festival pill testing, revealing that ecstasy pills in Europe contain, on average, 67.1% MDMA, compared to 16% in the lowest-ranked territory, Australia.
The average pill in North America is 54.2% MDMA – a figure that drops to 35% in the US specifically and 25% in Canada. In Asia, meanwhile, it is 52.9% MDMA, and in Oceania as a whole 47.3%.
The impurity of the ecstasy sold at music festivals has been blamed for many recent fatalities, including those at Time…
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