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... 2003
The DEA’s Involvement With Ecstasy
In the 30 years since the founding of the Drug enforcement Administration, the DEA has been working to combat the drug problem in America. Ecstasy, especially in the past ten years, has been one of their major projects. Donnie Marshall, DEA Administrator, said at a “National Ecstasy and Club Drugs Conference” in Washington D. ... that an article in the June 5th, 2000 edition of Time Magazine claimed Ecstasy is “relatively harmless” (Boire 4). ... Ecstasy has been around since 1912, but since the drug became popular in the 1980’s, the government has seen how dangerous it is and the DEA has ruthlessly cracked down on it. ... For practically 60 years after this, there was almost no recorded data of Ecstasy. Then, in August of 1970, the first recreational use of Ecstasy was made public in a scholarly journal which was not further described (MDMA 1). This first recorded use of Ecstasy is most likely what pioneered everything that would follow for years to come. ... Soon after, the first step to outlawing Ecstasy use was taken in Great Britain as they included Ecstasy in Class A, with the most controlled substances such as cocaine and heroin in this category (MDMA 1). This final period concluding the history of Ecstasy leads into the 80’s where the DEA really made their participation known.
As a quick fact, from 1981-1985, zero people were seen in the emergency room because of Ecstasy use (MDMA 1). ... , but when health care officials came out to say they wanted their own supply of Ecstasy for their work and did not care about their patients’ needs, this was a problem that needed to be looked over (Report 8). So the DEA and everyone in support of Ecstasy went to battle in the courts. ... He decides that MDMA should be placed under Schedule III (this would make Ecstasy available for medical use only); however the DEA overrules this decision (Report 9).
The DEA’s obvious next step is putting Ecstasy under Schedule I. ... But because Ecstasy was put under schedule very quickly by emergency provisions, improper scheduling forced the DEA to remove MDMA and schedule the drug at a later date (MDMA 1). ... At the end of a hectic decade, Ecstasy is now under schedule and illegal. This does not stop some very ambitious people, however, as Ecstasy importation becomes a bigger problem then anyone ever thought.
Ecstasy gets to the U. ... It is said 84% of Ecstasy seized in Customs or through other confiscation methods comes from Belgium or the Netherlands (Threat 19). Ecstasy most common in the United States is made by Dutch chemists and sent to the U. ... through Israeli and Russian crime groups, who use American, Israeli, and Western European people as transporters (Ecstasy 20).
Approximate Word count = 2335
Approximate Pages = 9.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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