It is relatively safe drug. Very few people actually die from ecstacy/MDMA (this article claims that these are two different things but the Internets tells me that aren't ). Their mistake was mixing it with large quantities the most harmful drug known to man and then throwing a few more harmful drugs (amphetamines and khat) in their bodies for good measure. Though those other two drugs could have just been another pill they thought was MDMA. Having an existing health/heart problem certainly didn't do them any favors either. MDMA is a very mild hallucinogens. Nothing even remotely close to LSD or shrooms. (at least from what I'm told anyways. ) I think they just had too many drugs working against them at the same time. MDMA is a party drug and regularly used in environments with lots of alcohol around, the mixture doesn't cause a problem for the vast majority of people. But these are the risks one takes when making a choice to use drugs.....bought from strangers.....without a test kit.....while extremely intoxicated....with pre-existing health conditions.
I saw a video done by a Brit tourist where he was being guided up a mountain and they passed by what looked like a compost heap covered by hay with a few people on it and the guide told him they were harvesting shrooms.
