Curtail drug sale - Illegal drugs on the internet

CONSIDERING the easy and relatively cheap availability of mood-altering substances like alcohol, it is beyond belief that there are still many people who risk their lives and those of others in order to achieve an illegal high.

A house party in Cork on Tuesday descended into something like a horror movie when six young people consumed a drug reportedly bought over the internet.

Much has been made recently about the propensity of Irish people to abuse alcohol but, at least, it is a regulated substance that, taken at moderate levels, will do little harm.