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Presser
03-28-2007, 10:35 PM
Its been on the news all day about a recent bust where they found multiple flavors of meth,lol

Now thats sad, and the dicks who did this should get twicew the time cuase im sure a meth head doesnt care if its flavored or if it tastes like battery acid they will still do it, wich leads me to belive this Flavored meth was made strictly to market to KIDS and Young new users, and thats fucked up!

Presser
03-28-2007, 10:37 PM
Just found this

Reports of candy-flavored methamphetamine are emerging around the nation, stirring concern among police and abuse prevention experts that drug dealers are marketing the drug to younger people.
The flavored crystals are available in California, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Texas, New Mexico, Missouri and Minnesota, according to intelligence gathered by Drug Enforcement Administration agents from informants, users, local police and drug counselors, DEA spokesman Steve Robertson says.


http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2007/03/25/methx.jpg Methamphetamine comes in different colors and forms. Now reports of candy-flavored methamphetamine are emerging around the nation, stirring concern among police and abuse prevention experts that dealers are marketing the drug to younger people.


ON DEADLINE: 'Strawberry quick' popular with snorters

"Drug traffickers are trying to lure in new customers, no matter what their age, by making the meth seem less dangerous," Robertson says.

Methamphetamine, a highly addictive stimulant, is usually a white or brownish, bitter-tasting crystalline powder that dissolves in water. It is usually smoked or snorted.

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Among the new flavors are strawberry, known as "Strawberry Quick," chocolate, cola and other sodas, Robertson said. One agent reported a red methamphetamine that had been marketed as a powdered form of an energy drink, he said.

A patrol officer who stopped a car on Feb. 13 in a rural area of Greene County, Mo., seized a bag of "strawberry meth" from a female passenger, says Capt. Randy Gibson of the Greene County Sheriff's Department. The seized drug had a slight strawberry smell to it, he said.

Greene County deputies have seized colored meth before, Gibson says. Several years ago, blue methamphetamine, known as "Smurf dope" circulated in the area, Gibson said.

"It was nothing more than one of the local meth cooks taking a great deal of pride in his purity," Gibson says. "He ground up blue chalk to color it so he could market it as his."

Carson City, Nev., Undersheriff Steve Albertson says dealers often try to make their meth distinctive with color or a catchy name as a way to brand it. "Then they'll spread the word that this meth, whatever color it is, is the best kind of meth there is," he said.

The appearance of "Strawberry Quick" in Greene County came less than two weeks after the Nevada Department of Public Safety issued a bulletin about flavored methamphetamine seized during a Jan 27 apartment search in Carson City.

"It seems to have progressed very quickly from west to east," Gibson says.

"Strawberry Quick," the bulletin said, "is popular among new users who snort it because the flavoring can cut down on the taste. Teenagers who have been taught meth is bad may see this flavored version as less harmful. 'Strawberry Quick' is designed for the younger crowd."

As methamphetamine's popularity has waned, drug dealers have to create new ways to market it, says Scott Burns, deputy drug czar for state, local and tribal affairs for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. The number of people 12 and older who used methamphetamine for the first time in the previous year decreased from 318,000 people in 2004 to 192,000 people in 2005, according the National Survey on Drug Use and Health by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

"The traffickers know the word is out about what a horrible drug this is," Burns says.

"They are having a tough time selling this product, especially to young people. What do people in marketing do when they have a tough time selling a product? They have to come up with some sort of gimmick."

NAIR
03-28-2007, 10:49 PM
sad

Get_Swole
03-28-2007, 11:25 PM
thats such shit i hate fuckers like that i hope they pay big time

mrfreeze
03-29-2007, 12:13 AM
I watched a special about meth on TLC, Where it started, Portland Oregon and has slowly moved east. It seems now you read about any kind of arrest no matter what it is that person well have meth on them. It's a big problem in Oregon. They where showing what people looked like several years ago and what they looked like now after being on that shit for several years, meth mouth, soars all over there body, They don't even look like the same person, its just unreal.

NAIR
03-29-2007, 01:01 AM
yeah its realy nasty. i'm from Portland but between all the meth problems and the wacked out liberals I'm happy to stay far away.

Get_Swole
03-29-2007, 03:35 AM
shit leave it to oklahoma we are like number 2 or so lol its horrible here glad i live on the good side of town but shit its here too so what do ya do ya know?

pincushion
03-29-2007, 05:44 PM
i did meth before and it is the most additive shit in the world, and to think anybody would try to get kids to do it, fucking pisses me off. i always heard that steriods was the gateway drug, for all other drug use, and i thought that was stuiped because bodybuilders are about the way they look and eating right and training, but i think the reason why its the gateway drug is you realize that all the bullshit that you hear about steriods isnt true then maybe other drugs arnt as bad as they say. But none of you will probley ever try meth but if you think you would like to try it just once take it from me please dont, it is as bad as they say.

NAIR
03-29-2007, 05:53 PM
Never heard that steroids were the gateway to all drugs....I think you mean pot???
Recreational drugs are of no value and the evidence of their harm is to unbelievably conclusive it’s silly ro suggest otherwise.

noel
04-02-2007, 12:06 AM
its bad were i live, the county i am in was rated the highest busted county in hte state for meath houses.