According to a report from The Age today, a Melbourne based pharmacist and doctor have pushed for MDMA – hopefully, the main ingredient found in ecstasy pills – to be legalised, to reduce the harm caused by weird additives that they say is the main cause of risk from taking them. Of course, it’s about as much chance that the new Zac Efron EDM movie is going to be any good as it is to happen.

Pharmacist Joshua Donelly and leading doctor Professor David Penington published an article in the Journal of Law and Medicine calling for the drug to be regulated and on sale through pharmacies so users can access a safer, pure dose of the drug. The article comes after Britain’s Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs in 2010 ranked MDMA 17th – far behind tobacco at 6th and alcohol at 1st – on a list of 20 drugs according to the harm they caused. It also follows the British government’s former top drug adviser, Professor David Nutt, saying that taking MDMA was likely to be safer than horse riding.

Professor Penington, who is well known for his work combating HIV and AIDS in Australia, said prohibition did nothing to reduce the damage of illicit drugs, but was increasing it:

“Australians are one of the highest consumers of MDMA in the world, yet we resolutely resist exploring the fact that most of the uncommon ill consequences of its use arise from impurities in illicitly manufactured drug and the ‘illicit’, uncontrolled circumstances of its use,” he said.

Of course, quickly firing back the government quickly said they have no plans to legalise MDMA without ‘proof that it doesn’t do any harm’.

Here’s hoping for a safer way to take drugs. Moderation is a thing though:

Please note: photo of known ecstasy advocate Miley Cyrus unrelated.