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Drug dealers 'switching from cocaine to fake Viagra'
#9894865 - 03/02/09 05:14 AM (15 years, 30 days ago) |
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Drug dealers 'switching from cocaine to fake Viagra' March 2, 2009 - telegraph.co.uk
Drugs gangs are switching from selling cocaine to a fake version of the sex pill Viagra attracted by the lure of higher profit margins
Making up counterfeit anti-impotence pills can be as much as 2,000 times more profitable than dealing in hard drugs, according to one expert.
With millions of potential buyers available on the internet, the trade is also less risky for gangsters.
But there were warnings that the fake blue pills, often made from a cocktail of prescription medicines, can be highly dangerous for users.
Last months a report in Singapore highlighted that four men died and three were left in comas in just five months after taking counterfeit impotence drugs.
Jim Thomson, founder of the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (EAASM), said that the prospect of high profits was now attracting criminals into the fake Viagra market.
"You can buy a kilo of the active ingredient of Viagra on a website for about £33 and you can make a lot of tablets from a kilo," he was quoted as telling the Daily Star.
"The margin is about 2,000 times more profitable than cocaine."
He went on: "If you bought a kilo of cocaine in Bogotá you would be lucky to get out alive, if you were caught you would go to jail for a very long time.
"With the pills you would be very unlucky to get more than three years if you got caught."
But he said the bogus pills were "illegal in every way" and potentially dangerous.
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Re: Drug dealers 'switching from cocaine to fake Viagra' [Re: veggie]
#9894950 - 03/02/09 06:13 AM (15 years, 30 days ago) |
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Is there a high demand for this?
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Re: Drug dealers 'switching from cocaine to fake Viagra' [Re: neopet nub]
#9895302 - 03/02/09 08:41 AM (15 years, 30 days ago) |
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I've been trying to get a hold of Viagra for months. I didn't know it could be bought on the internet for cheap.
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Re: Drug dealers 'switching from cocaine to fake Viagra' [Re: Newfound_wonder]
#9895620 - 03/02/09 10:13 AM (15 years, 30 days ago) |
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Easy solution to the Quote:
But there were warnings that the fake blue pills, often made from a cocktail of prescription medicines, can be highly dangerous for users.
Legalize and tax. You have a product which the consumer knows they're buying not a cocktail of potentially fatal substance. You wipe out entire networks of criminal organizations. You take away a large portion of the prison system, you put more money in the pockets of american, you create a multi-billion dollar industry creating now jobs so forth and so on. Basically the only thing that's bad about drug legalization is that uneducated people won't know the dangers to the substances they're aloud to put in their body.
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Re: Drug dealers 'switching from cocaine to fake Viagra' [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
#9898467 - 03/02/09 05:58 PM (15 years, 30 days ago) |
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Basically the only thing that's bad about drug legalization is that uneducated people won't know the dangers to the substances they're aloud to put in their body.
True, but you could buy aspirin, which can easily be misused too.
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Re: Drug dealers 'switching from cocaine to fake Viagra' [Re: pothead_bob]
#9902044 - 03/03/09 08:04 AM (15 years, 29 days ago) |
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What is more easier than going to a doctor and telling him you want a script for Viagra to improve your sex life? It's not like your going in trying to get him to prescribe you oxy or xanax. Why buy it from sketchy people and being unsure of what's in it?
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Re: Drug dealers 'switching from cocaine to fake Viagra' [Re: pothead_bob]
#9902055 - 03/03/09 08:08 AM (15 years, 29 days ago) |
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pothead_bob said: True, but you could buy aspirin, which can easily be misused too.
As Katt Williams said... Asprin is legal, but take 13 of those motherfuckers and it'll be your last headache.
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Re: Drug dealers 'switching from cocaine to fake Viagra' [Re: mr.bixby]
#9902333 - 03/03/09 09:31 AM (15 years, 29 days ago) |
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What is more easier than going to a doctor and telling him you want a script for Viagra to improve your sex life? It's not like your going in trying to get him to prescribe you oxy or xanax. Why buy it from sketchy people and being unsure of what's in it?
It's not that difficult, but it's not nearly as easy as picking up a pack at Wal-Mart OTC. Also, some may be embarassed to ask their doctor. Not to mention it would probably be a lot cheaper if it weren't prescription. Honestly, I just don't understand why some prescription drugs are controlled in the first place considering that so many OTC drugs could be just as lethal.
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Re: Drug dealers 'switching from cocaine to fake Viagra' [Re: pothead_bob]
#9902356 - 03/03/09 09:36 AM (15 years, 29 days ago) |
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pothead_bob said: Also, some may be embarassed to ask their doctor.
But a doctor can check your heart and make sure Viagra won't kill you... That seems to be a reason to get over being embarrased by your flaccid weiner.
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Re: Drug dealers 'switching from cocaine to fake Viagra' [Re: RoosterCogburn]
#9902392 - 03/03/09 09:44 AM (15 years, 29 days ago) |
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As far as I know, the only problem with Viagra is you can't be taking nitrates for a heart condition. It's a potentially deadly combination. But there are OTC drugs that can have fatal interactions (aspirin and anti-seizure meds).
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Re: Drug dealers 'switching from cocaine to fake Viagra' [Re: pothead_bob]
#9904782 - 03/03/09 04:52 PM (15 years, 29 days ago) |
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Scripts in the U.S are way overpriced and after watching Sicko I wonder if those in Canada or the European countries get them for free or next to nothing. Most of the tax dollars here have to go to the contractors and military. When I bought Viagra in Mexico it was a joke. Walking into a small store with a young "doctor" in a cheap looking doctor outfit who wrote me a script for it for a small charge which took about 5 minutes. It was almost like buying it over the counter but I wonder why they do that, like participating in a show with an actor playing a doctor. I though Viagra was a sexual drug but all it does is increase blood flow through the body and if erect, which naturally brings a lot of blood to that area, it keeps it heavily pumping. I thought I was going to have this wonderful ecstacy type sexual experience walking around in the day and all I felt was a heat in my body from blood I guess being accelerated by a faster heart rate through me. But live and learn like most drugs and I know how to use it now.
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Re: Drug dealers 'switching from cocaine to fake Viagra' [Re: RoosterCogburn]
#9904802 - 03/03/09 04:55 PM (15 years, 29 days ago) |
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RoosterCogburn said:
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pothead_bob said: True, but you could buy aspirin, which can easily be misused too.
As Katt Williams said... Asprin is legal, but take 13 of those motherfuckers and it'll be your last headache.
People are more likely to experiment with drugs that get you high, rather then taking 13 aspirins, panadol's or what ever those head ache pills are.
So that's just a flawed argument.
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Re: Drug dealers 'switching from cocaine to fake Viagra' [Re: ShroooomerToo]
#9905147 - 03/03/09 05:47 PM (15 years, 29 days ago) |
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I think people take aspirin to stop shroom trips sometimes. lol
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Re: Drug dealers 'switching from cocaine to fake Viagra' [Re: ShroooomerToo]
#9909023 - 03/04/09 08:34 AM (15 years, 28 days ago) |
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ShroooomerToo said: So that's just a flawed argument.
The point is LEGAL substances can kill you. Pay attention.
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Re: Drug dealers 'switching from cocaine to fake Viagra' [Re: ShroooomerToo]
#9909487 - 03/04/09 10:34 AM (15 years, 28 days ago) |
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People are more likely to experiment with drugs that get you high, rather then taking 13 aspirins, panadol's or what ever those head ache pills are.
So that's just a flawed argument.
Does Viagra get you high? (And I'm not talking about your cock)
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