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Showing posts with label Drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drugs. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
1,033 Kg of Heroin Bust
Junkies all over the world are crying in their needles, as Shanghaiist reports on this amazing bust.
In the biggest drug bust in China's history, police arrested 20 suspects and seized 1,033 kg (2,277 pounds) of heroin. That's enough to reenact the adrenaline needle scene from Pulp Fiction about a million times, give or take.
Huangpu Customs in Guangdong Province disclosed the information as they were getting ready to destroy drugs from a raid last year (a meager 545 kilos of heroin). The drugs from this bust are scheduled to be destroyed on the 25th.
When we first heard about this latest bust, we'll confess, we were hoping for pictures of police officers standing next to mountains of loose heroin (that's how drug dealers store it, right?). Instead we get what looks like all the smack packages in the world spread out in a neat grid spanning a football field, which is really the only way to keep track of your China White: meticulously. (Also, is that a velvet sheet in picture two?)
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Denver's Newest Tourist Attraction -- Ganja Gourmet Cafe
Ganja Gourmet Cafe in Denver is on to a fabulous idea, and the owner will soon be a millionaire if he can quickly copyright the name and concept, and franchise the idea across the nation. Looks a very classy place, plus it's on Broadway, so can catch the streetcar back to your hotel after the meal. Remember, don't smoke and drive.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Surrealistic Cat Video
Cat lovers. Does it sometimes seem your cat perhaps took too much acid as a kitty, and can never come back to ground? This video will only confirm your worst fears/hopes as noted by SFist.
YouTube character Gay Carrington is, near as we can tell, a stoner transsexual puppet who occasional chimes in to talk to her fans in Old Hollywood-style English about her moods, pets, and experiences. She posted the above "kaleido-vision" video "while resting up" for her next real video, but we think it's positively brilliant. It stars her cat, Christina "Mooks" Carrington, and as far as stoner YouTubery goes, it's the tops. Enjoy.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
2010 Ko Phangan Full Moon Party Dates
Thai Pulse offers a list of the 2010 Ko Phangan Full Moon Parties, obtained from a can of "Shark" cola. Just like Red Bull.
Koh Pha-ngan's Full Moon Party experience is not all that different than what you see here on this can. Very much like that in fact.
This just released, on a bottle of “Shark” cola here in Thailand. Shark, if you haven’t had it is like Red Bull. Exactly like Red Bull and it’s even made in Austria, just like, “Red Bull”. Safe to say it’s RB.
Here are the 2010 Koh Pha-gnan Full moon party dates:
Saturday January 20
Sunday February 28
Tuesday March 30
Wednesday April 28
Thursday May 27
Saturday June 26
Monday July 26
Tuesday August 24
Thursday September 23
Saturday October 23
Sunday November 21
Tuesday December 21
Book your flight into Bangkok and head down to Koh Pha-ngan for the outrageous Full Moon Parties. There was rumor they were going to make them drug free – but, so far – that is JUST a rumor.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Fake Viagra in Thailand. No Kidding!
Fake Viagra in Thailand? Sad, but true, most of the Viagra sold in Thailand is fake and doesn't work for the farang horndog. The fake stuff is sold on the streets and from pharmacies which often don't recognize the fakery, so excellent is the packaging. Yes, I've been hoodwinked. The only way to insure you get the authentic item is to visit a doctor and get a prescription, which makes the price almost the same as back home. sigh.
Patrick Winn at Global Post has the details. Click the link for page 2.
Little is real in Patpong, a glowing bazaar and sex district here in Bangkok. The Gucci is fake, the DVDs are pirated and the go-go girls tell every man he’s handsome.
Drugs too are sold here openly. Not speed or cocaine, but Viagra — or at least diamond-shaped, blue pills that resemble the real thing. After dark, one aging female vendor displays dingy Viagra boxes at her stall to attract customers.
When a man shows interest, she dispatches a teenage runner to retrieve the pills from a secret location nearby. The price: $6 per tablet, $4 cheaper than the average U.S. cost.
“You want it?” asks the runner. “It’s a good price.”
It’s likely too good to be true. Counterfeit pharmaceuticals are widespread in Southeast Asia, sold for cheap on the street or in rural mom-and-pop markets.
Though Viagra is one of the most common knock-offs, it’s much less worrisome than fake meds to fight malaria, tuberculosis and even HIV. They often contain little or no active ingredient. The result: Sickness, fatalities and a host of drug-resistant viruses.
“It might contain the correct active ingredient, but the wrong dose. Or it might contain nothing at all,” said Clemence Gautier, consultant at the Bangkok-based law firm Tilleke & Gibbins. The firm specializes in prosecuting counterfeiters for clients that include pharmaceutical firms Pfizer, Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline.
Thai customs police, trained by Tilleke & Gibbins to spot fakes, often set aside boxes of seized goods for the attorneys to inspect and share with clients. Their stash amounts to 3,500-plus knock offs, many of which look astonishingly real.
Along with convincing bottles of Stolichnaya vodka, Casio calculators and even a working motorbike — all counterfeit — raids turn up a lot of fake medicine. The packages of “Throatsil” and faux-Viagra tablets stamped with the letters “VAG” are easy to spot. Many others aren’t.
“The counterfeiters are quite good at what they do,” Gautier says. “All the way down to the holograms on the box.”
The scope of counterfeit meds is difficult to gauge. But the World Health Organization has said that, in the worst-affected parts of Southeast Asia, as many as 30 percent of pharmaceuticals are lacking the stated active ingredient. This covers outright fakes, expired meds and even pills made improperly by well-meaning but barely regulated factories.
About 77 percent of bad meds are produced in China, according to GlaxoSmithKline. Just this week, a Chinese national was arrested in Bangkok with nearly $450,000 worth of Viagra knock-offs and sex toys, which are also illegal to buy or sell in Thailand.
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