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Green_T


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Ecstasy drought sees switch to meow meow [AUS]
#13339644 - 10/15/10 10:44 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ecstasy drought sees switch to meow meow October 15, 2010 - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The latest national report into so-called party drugs in Australia indicates that ecstasy is getting less pure and drug users are finding it harder to get.
But experts believe drug users may just be using a new synthetic drug instead.
The Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (ERDRS) annually surveys 700 regular ecstasy users from across Australia about their drug habits.
This year for the first time the drug mephedrone - or meow meow, as it is known - has featured significantly.
ERDRS principal investigator in Victoria, Paul Dietze, says it is concerning.
"It may well be that ... as they're reporting that the purity and availability of ecstasy has been declining, this new drug has come in and people are reporting taking it because it gives them the desired effects that they are after," he said.
Mr Dietze says very little is known about the synthetic chemical, which has been linked to deaths overseas.
"We are seeing relatively large proportions of the samples in Victoria and Tasmania reporting use of the drug [mephedrone].
"In Tasmania people who were part of the survey actually reporting using it with reasonable frequency."
The Australian Drug Foundation's Geoff Munro says mephedrone has been brought to their attention over the past year.
He says right now very little is known about the substance.
"Mephedrone has been reputedly associated with several deaths in the UK and Europe, perhaps up to five, but other drugs may have been implicated in those deaths as well," he said.
"Because it is so new we don't know much about the short-term and longer-term effects."
The ERDRS survey also indicates cocaine use is still on the rise throughout the country, while the use of crystal methamphetamine has continued to fall.
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Invisible_Woe


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Re: Ecstasy drought sees switch to meow meow [AUS] [Re: Green_T]
#13339799 - 10/15/10 11:18 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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i thought they were referring to ketamine. its called meow around my town at least. 
its no surpirze people are using mephadrone, especially if its legal. i think we should do more research so definitive answers can be givien...but instead, i get the feeling, they are just going to outlaw it and give it no second thought...
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Satival
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Re: Ecstasy drought sees switch to meow meow [AUS] [Re: Invisible_Woe]
#13340992 - 10/15/10 04:47 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nobody has done a mephedrone toxicity study yet??!?!!?!
Wake up scientific community and various health organizations, this shit is fucking important. Sounds like a great thesis for a phd student.
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SmokeThatKush88
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Re: Ecstasy drought sees switch to meow meow [AUS] [Re: Satival]
#13341405 - 10/15/10 07:02 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Stuffs great, the alertness of coke and the good feeling of mali all rolled into one. Pretty cheap and only lasts an hour but overall was very enjoyable. Only downside is its quite cakey powder.
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Re: Ecstasy drought sees switch to meow meow [AUS] [Re: Satival]
#13342457 - 10/16/10 12:00 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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The scientific community and health orgs are not sleeping. I am sure they are hard at work observing and solving issues not created by greedy chemists and irresponsible vendors.
I agree, it would be a great thesis for a phd student... However, user beware in this grey area plant food industry. It is a shame that we live in a political environment where common people would even have to consider such dangerous shit to get some kicks; however, all the safest stuff is illegal; so there you have it.
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Re: Ecstasy drought sees switch to meow meow [AUS] [Re: Dickhead]
#13342478 - 10/16/10 12:10 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Not to sound like a jerk...
But in the big picture, I wish this shit came to public view a few years ago. Perhaps the DEA would have overlooked salvia, new phenthylamines and tryptamines as they would have had there boners busy all up in this deadly stimulant action.
Sadly, the way the cards were dealt will likely lump it all into one huge illegal pile.
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