Schumer fights ‘Molly’

It’s Sen. Charles Schumer in one corner and the drug of choice for teens and 20-somethings, Molly, in the other.

Schumer recently laid out a plan to curtail the use of the increasingly dangerous and popular club drug “molly,” a form of MDMA.  

This summer there have been a rash of overdoses of the drug, which is commonly taken at music festivals – three of which, in New York City, were fatal.  Schumer said that the use of the drug is increasing common and increasingly dangerous, because manufacturers of the illicit substances are mixing other, more dangerous ingredients into the batches.  Schumer, who successfully led the charge to ban “bath salts,” another deadly chemical drug, laid out a two-pronged approach to fight back.   First he called on the New York and New Jersey High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) group and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to bring a new focus onto molly labs.  Second, Schumer announced he will push legislation that gives the federal government greater ability to ban the wide range of chemicals that go into the substance sold as MDMA or molly.  Currently dealers are getting around federal law by slightly tweaking the chemical composition of substances that are banned.

  “As this drug gets more popular, it also gets more dangerous as drug dealers cut it with increasingly deadly chemicals,” said Schumer.  “We’ve begun to see the number of cases of overdoses and death rise this summer, and things are going to get far worse unless we take immediate and aggressive action.”