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The book entitled E for Ecstasy, by Nicholas Saunders, is a book of
history, information, and stories about the illegal drug ecstasy. The author
presents a vast amount of information about many aspects of the drug such as the
history of the invention of the drug, information about how the drug effects
people in different ways, positive reasons to use the drug, side effects and
negative reasons to use the drug, and an overview of how the drug has been
accepted into various societal groups.
A shipment of this book, which was published in England in 1994, was
ceased by Australian customs agents in the spring of 1994 and has been banned in
Australia ever since. The ban on this book is currently still in place and
being upheld by the Australian government due to the way the book portrays the
drug ecstasy in a primarily positive way. According to the author of the book,
even anti-drug groups are opposed to the ban because they believe both sides of
the story should be heard.
As I read this book, at first I felt a temptation to try ecstasy due to
the positive way in which the ...
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