Party’s Over for Party Drugs
July 7th, 2009 by Rick
More bad news for the land down under in form of tainted ecstasy. The Crime and Misconduct Commission in Australia is planning on releasing a report saying that ecstasy cooks are spiking their drugs with:
- Painkillers
- Anti depressants
- Methamphetamine
- Ketamine
CMC intelligence director Chris Keen said:
Whereas previously a tablet may have mainly contained ecstasy as the active drug there is now an increased incidence of tablets containing other types of drugs within one tablet. [...] A person who believes they have overdosed from ecstasy may be shown from a toxicology perspective to be from anti-depressive drugs because that was major content of the tablet. [...] To meet the high market demand tablets are being sold as ecstasy that contain no ecstasy at all. [...] Another result of lower purity tablets is that consumers are on average swallowing more tablets in a session (from one to two) than they were five to six years ago, possibly this is to seek achieving the same high. [...] This type of behaviour creates a greater risk for adverse reactions and overdoses.
According to a report by the Australian Crime Commission, Australia has the highest use of ecstasy per capita in the world.
Drug Traffickers Overload on Cartoon Network
July 1st, 2009 by RickBack in the day the only thing that looked like a Flintstone vitamin was a Flintstone vitamin. Nowadays the illegal drug traffickers and manufacturers within Missouri have come up with some ecstasy tabs that take the shape and appearance of certain cartoon characters like Snoopy, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and even one non-cartoon character in the form of U.S. President Barack Obama.
Authorities are concerned about children mistaking the drugs for candy or vitamins. The drugs are currently in Kansas City and reportedly on their way to St. Louis.
Drug Abuse Foundation CEO Busted
June 17th, 2009 by Russ
Master of Irony, Craig Farris, was arrested last Thursday afternoon when he attempted to sell meth and ecstasy to an undercover police officer. Farris, founder and CEO of the Over the Wall Foundation, made his initial fortune helping young people face and recover from addiction. Apparently he’s making a second fortune by re-establishing himself as their primary drug dealer in their Foundation Sponsored Relapse.
In an interesting twist, the drugs intercepted by police turned out not to be illicit drugs at all. Sly Craig Farris not only has got the best racket in town (dealing drugs to addicts inside their own treatment center), he’s pawning off Tylenol and oregano to do it. At least he’s consistent: he lacks scruples as a drug counselor and a drug dealer at the same time.
“School Project” Lands Man In Jail
June 12th, 2009 by Rick
On Monday, an anonymous tip to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office in Fort Pierce, FL, led to drug possession charges and an arrest of 26-year-old, Oulay Inthaphone.
Upon arriving to his home, the police, probably expecting to bust some sophisticated high level grow-op, asked if Inthaphone was growing marijuana. Inthaphone admitted that he had a plant that he was growing for a “school project”.
They also found actual use of marijuana by way of a pipe, blunts and stems in the living room, along with 12 Ecstasy pills found on a nightstand in his bedroom.
Let’s just hope he hadn’t popped a pill or two right before his trip to the county jail or it would might make for an odd night in lock-up.
NY Daily News Offers Virtual Lynch Mob
June 11th, 2009 by Russ
Tuesday’s New York Daily News featured a story about an artsy fellow entrapped by police in a sting operation for selling weed, ecstasy and LSD. The obviously non-violent William Delp described himself as an filmmaker, composer, and social activist. His part time work at a Columbia University art studio apparently earned the headline in the paper.
While Delp is chalked up as another non-violent victim of the War on Drugs, a far more interesting development was the comment stream on the Daily News’s website.
User hjo4 noted:
I don’t know what world you live in but a drug dealer does more harm to society at large than a sick demented person who roasts a kitten. Both acts are despicable but drug abuse cost us ALL.
Thank you, hj04. If only we pursued serial kitten-roasters with the same fervor as casual psychedelic users in this country — we might one day eliminate the scourge of charred kittens altogether.
In response to a Delp neighbor comment that he was seen often flashing the peace sign, internet humanitarian, ThisisJoeGaggs noted:
Anyone who is constantley using the peace sign is a coward, only a coward will seek peace on a constant basis. When I want to use a greeting I use the WAR sign, which is done by holding up the first three fingers to form a W. Columbia is filled with a bunch of dis-illusioned future cowards who don’t have the brains or balls to understand that in order to achieve peace one must destroy his enemies.
There you have it folks. The voice of the War on Drugs. Murdering, raping, and turning cities into rubble is fine and dandy as long as it is done to enemy peoples (and preferably in countries that most Americans can’t visualize on a map.) Expanding your mind with plant cultivation, on the other hand, is the refuge of cowards and kitten roasters. Well said.
The Strange Case of Doctor Ecstasy
May 22nd, 2009 by ErinAlthough I’d never heard of Dr. Alexander Shulgin until now, I really wish I had. We can thank Shulgin for creating over 200 psychedelic compounds, a pair of memoir/cookbooks called PHiKAL and TiHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved, and Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved), and for reintroducing us all to ecstasy in 1976; a drug that had been considered useless when it was patented in 1914.
So how many times has Shulgin been arrested? Surprisingly, never. The compounds were not illegal when he created them — the DEA hadn’t heard of them yet. From the 50s through the 80s, he actually had the DEA’s full support and a DEA-issued Schedule I research license until PHiKAL was published in 1993. They weren’t too stoked on that; his lab was raided and his license revoked.
An experience with mescaline in 1960 attributed to his unconventional field of research.
He described that everything he saw and thought:
Had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white solid, but that in no way whatsoever could it be argued that these memories had been contained within the white solid… I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can catalyze its availability.
Dr. Shulgin still views himself as a scientist; just maybe a little more exploratory and unafraid to test on himself. He prides himself on the identification and classification of a slew of psychedelic compounds previously unbeknownst to mankind.
Huge Indonesian Drug Busts
May 11th, 2009 by Rick
In the past few weeks, during Operation Metropermata 2009, police in Jakarta, Indonesia and several other regions, have seized a little over $14 billion dollars worth of drugs and raw materials used in making the drugs – including ammonia, methanol acetone and ephedrine, a key ingredient within crystal methamphetamine.
Police conducted a tour on Friday of a Depok Factory that had been raided, which alone had over 9.8 tons of raw material, enough to make 5 kilograms of Ecstasy and 15 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine per day. Apparently, if all the raw material from that factory had been used, 11.5 million Ecstasy pills and hundreds of kilograms of high-grade crystal methamphetamine would have been able to have been made.
National Police chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri said:
That’s enough to drug the whole population of Jakarta.
Via wikipedia:
population of 8,489,910
Damn. An increase of the amount of drugs discovered in Indonesia has risen since 2006 when only 466,000 recovered was reported. Last year, the Ministry’s report claims that 1,291,000 were recovered. Police are worried that Indonesia is not just a haven for drug dealers but now also a mass production site. Police claim that the drug ring in Indonesia began in January and allegedly had ties to Thailand and Hong Kong.
Fifteen suspects have been arrested, who had acted as distributors, suppliers and workers. Three suspects fled the country and are currently being sought after on an international scale.
Survey: Canadian Teens Ditch Pot for Pills
April 23rd, 2009 by Aaron
Houston, we have a problem. According to a survey, teens have given up smoking marijuana for pills and hallucinogens. The disturbing factor in all of this is; the study was conducted with teens from British Columbia… a place where pot has been common place for years.
It’s an interesting trend in British Columbia, as marijuana use for teens there has dropped for the tenth straight year but prescription drugs without a doctor’s consent, as well as hallucinogen drugs such as Ecstasy, are on the rise. Ecstasy use alone had increased by nine percent since 2003.
Unfortunately, the survey doesn’t explain why their teens have moved to pills.
