The NY Times has a look at how the Molly overdoses at Wesleyan University have affected the "liberal tradition" the school. And it details the drugs that the arrested students had in their possession.

According to the Times,"[I]nterviews with Wesleyan students and administrators and a review of police and education records show not so much a troubled campus as one trying to strike a tenuous balance, between the safety of its students and its reputation as an open-minded institution where people feel free to experiment. Wesleyan forbids illegal drugs, but allows for a range of disciplinary actions for dealing with them, from education and counseling to suspension or expulsion. Students said that marijuana use in particular was common, and most believed that the college tolerated it as a given, with campus security guards more likely to tell a student to put out a joint than to file a report."

However, Molly's effects are more serious than marijuana, and it's believed that the Molly taken by students was "bad," which can cause symptoms like "high blood pressure, high heart rate, high body temperature that can progress all the way to seizures and coma and multi-system failure."

In fact, the Times reports, "When a Wesleyan University student who had taken drugs at a party last month began feeling ill, his friends took him to his dorm room, gave him water and Triscuits, and assumed he just needed to sleep it off. A few hours later, he sat up in bed, gasping for air, then collapsed back onto his mattress, unconscious and not breathing."

Five students were arrested, including one who was hospitalized, for charges likes drug possession and possession with intent to sell. One was found with "600 Xanax pills and three forms of synthetic psilocin, a hallucinogen found in many mushrooms." Another student who was arrested didn't even have any of the MDMA, but what he did have was strange: In the room of Eric Lonergan, the police found no Molly. But they did say they found 16 kinds of prescription drugs, which Mr. Lonergan told the police he had bought online without a prescription, including blood pressure medications, an antipsychotic, drugs for dementia or Parkinson’s disease, and others. That collection stumped several drug experts.

“None of these drugs are associated with getting high,” said Dr. Steven Roose, a pharmacologist at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.

“Where did this kid get such a bizarre collection of drugs?” Dr. Roose said, adding, “It’s very frightening, because these drugs can produce fatal reactions.”Dementia drugs, the new horrible idea for college students?