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Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil'
#8541796 - 06/19/08 06:33 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' June 19, 2008 - ABC News
A joint operation between Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Cambodian authorities has destroyed one of the world's largest illegal stockpiles of the oil used as a precursor to manufacture ecstasy.
AFP members travelled to Pursat in western Cambodia to help destroy a stockpile of safrole-rich oil which could have been used to produce 245 million MDMA (ecstasy) tablets with an estimated street value in Australia of $7.6 billion.
The team of four technicians and two forensic chemists from the AFP's Specialist Response Amphetamine Type Stimulants (SRATS) team began burning the 33-tonne stockpile of oil this week.
The burns of the 1,278 oil barrels took several days and were conducted in the early morning and evening because of the sweltering conditions in Cambodia at this time of year.
Cambodian authorities have been working since 2002 to stem the distillation of safrole-rich oil and since that time have succeeded in detecting and dismantling more than 50 clandestine laboratories capable of producing up to 60 litres a day.
The AFP's Tim Morris congratulated says the destruction of the oil was a significant blow to the trade of illicit drugs in the region.
"I commend the coordinated effort by Cambodian authorities to seize the oil, break the production chain and reduce the dependency on income from illegal drug manufacture," he said.
"This oil is not only a precursor in ecstasy production, it also has considerable social and ecological ramifications for Cambodia's people and environment.
"This oil is known to be carcinogenic and mutagenic and the people working in these clan labs are often Cambodia's poorest farmers."
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: veggie]
#8541804 - 06/19/08 06:37 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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WTF? burning all that oil into our atmosphere.. you mean to tell me there isnt one thing that could have been usefull to the government for?
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: rodfarva]
#8541810 - 06/19/08 06:38 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well they could have started to make MDMA and sold it in ABC stores, but I guess that would take too much work.
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: Shamanintraining]
#8541840 - 06/19/08 06:51 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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I think a diesel engine would run quite well on safrole.
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: Shamanintraining]
#8541846 - 06/19/08 06:53 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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wow fucking australians wut fucking faggot non environmentalist paraniod FUX why couldnt they just sell it to another country or something in stead of fucking fucking up our air dumbass fags need to get their priority straight
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: veggie]
#8541850 - 06/19/08 06:54 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Nooo!
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: ShroomMan420]
#8541894 - 06/19/08 07:02 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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31 bucks a pill?
Fuck Australia thats robbery!
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: Coaster]
#8541922 - 06/19/08 07:10 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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you damn hippy pot smokers need to stop polluting my air with your hippy maridevilhuana smoke.
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: rodfarva]
#8541923 - 06/19/08 07:10 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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rodfarva said: WTF? burning all that oil into our atmosphere.. you mean to tell me there isnt one thing that could have been usefull to the government for?
I was fucking just thinking the same thing. Do they not know the atmosphere is like a glass bubble around the earth? Do they think it's magically going to a better place?
EDIT: To add to this, the way I see it, since they are burning it into our atmosphere we are all breathing it in. Even the people who dont want anything to do with this drug.
You are probably doing more harm than good this way. Why, well in reality if they had been turned into E the only people who would've had the hazardous effects would be of those who wanted to buy it in the first place.
But no, we need to burn it. They obviously just wanna share the fun WITH EVERYONE because thats what they're really doing.
Anyone else see what I mean?
Edited by zootroid (06/19/08 07:16 PM)
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: zootroid]
#8541931 - 06/19/08 07:13 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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ya its not like theres a hole in the ozone over australia or anything
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: Coaster]
#8541947 - 06/19/08 07:20 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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are they seriously combusting a known carcinogen on a mass scale into the environment?

all this will do is raise the price of current ecstacy, and cause pill pressers to use more dangerous chemicals like PMA, BZP and methamphetamine.
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: Coaster]
#8542024 - 06/19/08 07:42 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Coaster said: wow fucking australians wut fucking faggot non environmentalist paraniod FUX why couldnt they just sell it to another country or something in stead of fucking fucking up our air dumbass fags need to get their priority straight
not our fault man, its the stupid fucking government
AND 20 30 a pill is about right
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: Hightimes]
#8542055 - 06/19/08 07:53 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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ya i no i love aussies but the gov is waque
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: Coaster]
#8542223 - 06/19/08 08:36 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ouch. But god damn.. $31 a pill. WTF
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: Thrax]
#8542255 - 06/19/08 08:41 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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the government always overestimates the price of dr00gz to make their seizure seem more significant.
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: Coaster]
#8542392 - 06/19/08 09:15 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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<<"This oil is not only a precursor in ecstasy production, it also has considerable social and ecological ramifications for Cambodia's people and environment.>>
/looks at the picture above of thick toxic smoke clouds
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: CptnGarden]
#8542772 - 06/19/08 10:57 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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CptnGarden said: you damn hippy pot smokers need to stop polluting my air with your hippy maridevilhuana smoke.
hahahahahaha.
AHHAHA
aint never gonna happen bro
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: tyler_0_durden]
#8542791 - 06/19/08 11:06 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Australia's war on drugs is like Americas war on terrorism they just go into the other country and take over...well they didn't drop bombs they just took all their happiness away.
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: JMR]
#8543097 - 06/20/08 12:46 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Wow... Just fucking Wow.
We really need a BIG fucking Revolution. Stop these bastards from Destroy our planet because they are afraid of pills.
This is pure insanity.
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Re: Police burn $7.6b worth of 'ecstasy oil' [Re: Dickhead]
#8543369 - 06/20/08 04:10 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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throy said: Wow... Just fucking Wow.
We really need a BIG fucking Revolution. Stop these bastards from Destroy our planet because they are afraid of pills.
This is pure insanity.
if im right about illegal drugs, i shouldn't have to do anything; The problem should correct itself without me.
That is, unless the system is flawed somehow...
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