It was just the immoral criminalisation of drugs which killed her. In fact it was what she did. Based on what's generally known about MDMA - it dehydrates - she drank so much water she drowned herself.
Let me explain. MDMA is a dangerous thing. It's almost as dangerous as a car in unlicensed hands.
The fear of the danger is what is the commonly cited argument used to justify criminalisation. The problem is this makes things worse.
Drugs aren't bad. Its what happens when some people get addicted or lose control that's bad. Then there's the problems of making certain drugs illegal.
If alcohol was still illegal it would still be available just like it is in muslim countries where it is outlawed. In these countries they can at least get safe alcohol smuggled in. But what if it were illegal everywhere?
Well the prohibition experiment shows the result. An illegal industry would be created. They'd switch to stronger drinks to reduce the problems of bulk. They'd be poorly brewed and full of nasty chemicals far nastier than the one people chose to take a risk on. Methanol would make people go blind. Crime would increase and criminal empires would be well funded. Tax revenue would decrease and the help for addicts would be poorly funded. Costs in policing would also increase and, like today, these efforts would be like pissing into the ocean.
Drugs represent a multibillion pound industry in the UK driven by one thing: demand. For our history we have done drugs. Legal ones like alcohol remain and psychiatry also prescribes drugs, some which become available illegally.
Practically it makes sense to legalise drugs but its on the morality aspect where society fails. Drugs enhance experience. Drugs help thinking and discover new modes of thinking. Durgs are fun and if you're too boring or, perhaps, too interesting to want or need them then fair enough. Don't apply your prejudices and choices on us. We chose to do drugs. We chose because they make us happy. It helps our subjective wellbeing and life journey. We don't need a fucking prescription to kno we need to get high.
It makes us a little crazy too. There's enough prejudice in that area. It's all about prejudice though. People on the wrong side of this argument have never tried drugs nor understand the joy or value. They're fucking tyrants who use their supposed moral stance to enforce laws and norms.
These result in more harms than legalisation. Anti-drug crusaders are partially responsible for Leia Bett's death. She chose to do a drug and she chose to do it safely. She had no access to the information which would have saved her life, unless drugs were legal.
The UKs senior drug scientist would agree with me. Or he would have if he still had a job. Sadly his scientific opinion was against political thinking. Those moral fuckheads fired him because he had an opinion and he cared. Of course he didn't retract his statement which is why he was fired. Morality, apparently, can't have naysayers.
It is an ad hominem arguement but nonetheless Hitler would be proud of what the 'moral' criminalisation of enthogens movement has done. It'd be better for his objectives if the criminalisation had caused excessive harm to the Jews. The antidrug movement can be proud to say they're different from Hitler: they ensure the harms affect everyone.
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