Monday, 14. April 2003

Students make 'E' to pay off their loans


High flying science graduates are paying off student loans by manufacturing ecstasy and other synthetic drugs for organised gangs, the Observer can reveal.

Strict controls over the sale and importation of the ingredients needed to make ecstasy have led the gangs in charge of the multi-million pound trade to turn to chemistry students who can divert the substances from their legitimate research.

¬> Observer

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