Drugs themselves are crazy enough, but what they’re called can sometimes make them (or at least make them seem) even more insane. Drug producers, dealers and users are increasingly creative in both the manufacturing and naming of drugs. Die Welt reported last month on the growing concern over the use of crystal methamphetamine, which in […]
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HERALD SUN (Australia), SKY NEWS (UK) Worldcrunch SYDNEY –Australian police have seized 585 kilograms of pure methamphetamine in Sydney bound to flush the major Australian cities. The haul was estimated at $438 million in street value, in what is largest seizure ever of methamphetamine down under. Police had been tipped off in September about “suspicious […]
EL TIEMPO, SEMANA (Colombia) MILENIO (Mexico) Worldcrunch BOGOTÁ– Colombia’s Justice Minister announced a government proposal to decriminalize personal use of synthetic drugs such as ecstasy and methamphetamines. If the proposal, as laid out by Justice Minister Ruth Stella Correa this week, passes Congress, it will authorize the carrying and consumption of what are known to […]
Smuggled in from Burma and North Korea, meth is flooding Chinese mean streets.