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Slate on Turbo-E

You all know what turbo-e is by now, right? It's MDMA laced with meth, and it's supposedly coming from Canada, and it will KILL YOU! (probably not, but just checking to see if you're paying attention). Well, leave it to Slate to say, "Duh" and file this under "non-news". The article quotes Canada's National Post rebuttal to the original NY Times story:

"[Drug Czar Walters] is not wrong. But this is nothing new. We've been telling them this for years," said Superintendent Ron Allen, head of the RCMP's Drug Section for the Greater Toronto Area.

In the summer of 2006, for instance, Canadian police seized 10,000 pills sold as Ecstasy that were destined for New York, and a laboratory test found they contained 80 percent methamphetamine.

What this article points out is what we here at DoseNation know all too well: A vast majority of the "E" being sold on the street in pill form is adulterated with something, but there are no reliable statistics. For a while it was caffeine, then DXM, then ephedra, then PMA, then K, now meth. Who knows what's in that party pill? Ask Slate.

Posted By jamesk at 2008-02-07 21:41:19 permalink | comments
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. : 2008-02-08 15:43:39
Being canadian and a regular user of e, i would say many kinds do have meth in them lately, a lot of people favor blue dolphin.
The article i read said "the combination of meth laced e and alcohol is deadly". I think it's a good combination
.. so they don't want people to try it ;]
guest : 2008-02-08 09:51:52
Send me your Turbo E for safe disposal.
Nowhere Girl : 2008-02-08 03:51:15
It perfectly makes sense that there are no statistics. Drug enforcement believes that if people don't know what's inside, they won't take Ecstasy (for some it's actually true - I guess I wouldn't take E now, I'm afraid of stuff like meth). The less information, theoretically the better for them. The bad thing is rather that lots of drug users just don't care about seeking reliable information.
In some countries, like the Netherlands, it's better - people can submit pills for testing, so some statistics must be available...

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