Police officers in the southern part of the Netherlands discovered an MDMA-covered garden gnome. The Dongemond Police Force, which covers the municipalities of Oosterhout, Geertruidenberg, Drimmelen and Altena, discovered the MDMA garden gnome earlier this month during a drug bust. According to an article from the BBC, the gnome weighed 2kg (4lb) and the Dongemond police authorities stated, “Drugs appear in many shapes and sizes, but every now and then we come across special things”. Knowing there was suspicion surrounding the odd placement of the garden gnome, the police also added, “”In itself a strange place to keep your garden gnome. That’s why we decided to test [it] for narcotics”.

To make things even funnier, police officers later concluded, “The gnome himself was visibly startled”. This was in reference to the garden gnome covering its mouth. Mixmag reported that the 2kg (4lb) MDMA garden gnome is equivalent to around “8,000 ecstasy pills weighing an average of 250mg each”. Afterwards, the drug bust continued onwards in the southern Netherlands. The drug bust occurred shortly after debate in the Netherlands regarding the potential regulation and legalization of MDMA in the Netherlands. As for the relevancy of MDMA legalization in the United States, this comes after the FDA rejected MDMA therapy for PTSD in Phase 3 clinical trials.