THE father of York ecstasy victim Thomas Staniforth today opposed MPs' calls for the drug to be downgraded.
The powerful Home Affairs Select Committee suggested ecstasy should be reclassified as a Class B drug instead of Class A.
Home Secretary David Blunkett rejected the calls, saying: "Ecstasy can, and does, kill unpredictably and there is no such thing as a safe dose."
Former York City star Gordon Staniforth, whose footballer son died last year after taking an ecstasy tablet, agreed with the minister, saying it was "far too early" to downgrade the drug.
Mr Staniforth, who lives at Copmanthorpe, near York, said he believed more research was still needed into how many people were being killed by ecstasy.
Updated: 11:54 Wednesday, May 22, 2002
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