The Banning Of e For Ecstasy By Nicholas Saunders :: essays research papers

The Banning of "E for Ecstasy" by Nicholas SaundersThe book entitled E for Ecstasy, by Nicholas Saunders, is a book ofhistory, information, and stories about the illegal drug ecstasy. The causationpresents a vast amount of information about many aspects of the drug such as thehistory of the invention of the drug, information about how the drug personal effectspeople in different ways, positive reasons to use the drug, side effects andnegative reasons to use the drug, and an overview of how the drug has beenaccepted into various societal groups.     A lode of this book, which was published in England in 1994, wasceased by Australian customs agents in the spring of 1994 and has been banned inAustralia ever since. The ban on this book is presently still in place andbeing upheld by the Australian government due to the way the book portrays thedrug ecstasy in a chiefly positive way. According to the author of the book,even anti-drug groups are opposed to t he ban because they believe both sides ofthe story should be heard.     As I read this book, at first I felt a temptation to try ecstasy due tothe positive way in which the drug was described. After reading only intothe text, however, much more detailed information about the drug is broughtfourth. For example, the book associates use of ecstasy with the cultures ofall kinds of illegal drugs. In my opinion, the ban should be bring up because thebook does not just give the positive information about this drug. While thebook does side towards the use of the drug, it does provide all kinds ofinteresting information and education including negative data about the drug.If information about drugs is kept in the dark, people will be tempted to seekinformation in potentially harmful ways. If information flows freely, however,people can usually be trusted to make smart choices.     The latest twist to this otherwise traditional story is that the good text of the book is now available on the Internet, as is the text of many otherbanned books.