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Ecstasy drug raid nets police staff and the bulk of street pills in NZ
Written by Neo
Two police staff - one a prosecutor - and a millionaire businessman are among 19 people arrested after a covert investigation targeting a criminal syndicate allegedly making and selling thousands of Ecstasy pills every week.
Confidential police information was also allegedly leaked to members of the group.
About $14 million worth of assets were seized yesterday in raids.
They included multimillion-dollar homes, expensive cars such as Bentleys, BMWs and Range Rovers, jet skis, a boat and pill presses.
The seizures followed a 12-month inquiry into the manufacture, supply and distribution of Class B and C drugs.
Detectives say the syndicate was the biggest player in the underground pill market and sold tens of thousands of tablets - which fetch at least $40 each - a week.
More than 200 police officers executed search warrants at 45 addresses throughout Auckland.
The armed offenders squad was called to two properties.
Fourteen of the 19 arrested appeared in the Auckland District Court yesterday afternoon charged with drug-related offences, including the manufacture and sale of MDMA - the Class-B drug known as Ecstasy - and analogues such as 4-MEC and 4-MMC.
The other five defendants will appear today.
At the centre of the inquiry is the 37-year-old company director who has name suppression to protect the reputation of his business and lucrative overseas contracts. His $3 million property has been seized.
A 30-year-old staff member of the company also has name suppression, as do a 30-year-old hairdresser and her husband.
A 35-year-old from Meadowbank and a 58-year-old from Remuera had their names and occupations suppressed.
The two non-sworn police staff, including a prosecutor, will appear in court today.
Court documents reveal the 36-year-old prosecutor, whose name is suppressed, faces charges of conspiring to supply methamphetamine, a Class-A drug, and participation in an organised criminal group.
The second police staff member is a 34-year-old man.
All but one of the 14 accused was granted bail- Stanley Marshall Alphonsus Leone was recalled to prison.
The 30-year-old faces four charges of manufacture, supply and selling Class B and Class C drugs.
Others who can be named include Johnny Be Good, 35, Rangimarie Kemp, 27, Grant Oswald Petersen, 25, Kevin Sean Challis, 32, Shalendra Singh, 32, Kelvin Sonny Cress, 33, and Brendan Nguyen, 32.
While some of the accused are millionaires, Petersen is a disc jockey, Kemp is a road worker and Challis is a painter.
Nguyen faces 28 charges, including attempting to pervert the course of justice by providing police information to two co-accused.
He is also charged with conspiring with one of the police staff and Allen Bryan Cho to supply methamphetamine. Cho, 36, is on the run from police.
Singh faces 27 charges, including supplying methamphetamine and money laundering more than $100,000 through a bank account connected to Cho.
The head of the Auckland metro drug squad, Detective Inspector Bruce Good, said the syndicate was responsible for the bulk of Ecstasy manufacturing and supply in New Zealand, which involved tens of thousands of pills a week. He said Ecstasy sold for at least $40 a pill.
"What is also of concern is that many of the pills or tablets seized comprise various mixtures of compounds, the effects of which when consumed could be fatal. Some were being manufactured on premises where rat poison was also made."
Police found eight pill presses in Onehunga, Albany and Highbrook, as well as kilos of compound ready to be pressed and tens of thousands of pills.
-NZ Herald
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The government has taken away your legal options to get medical, spiritual and recreational benefits from cannabinoids. Very odd when you consider plain old pot generally makes booze look like P. But never mind the politics, this week I am showing you all how, in theory, to grow this fabulously rewarding ancient teacher plant and medicine, Marijuana. (This article is for informational purposes ONLY, this is NOT legal advice)
Now under controlled conditions, indoor growing might work very well. “Scrog” grow is a great technique, for faster indoor yields. I’ll probably come back to that type of grow later. But…. It’s also in many ways more risky, than a popular and soon to be extremely popular method of growing pot:
The Guerrilla grow
This kind of grow is an outdoor grow, on land that is not yours. All you need is a legitimate excuse should you get caught in the area. A fishing line (if there’s a nearby river), a pair of binoculars for bird watching if it’s in the bush. You’ll also want to actually know something about your alibi, because if you get caught on the land, the cops will try and prove it is your grow. Thankfully the burden of proof is on them, in this case. That is if no one witnesses you there, and you leave no physical evidence of your presence! (hair, nails, footprints etc).
Now some people lay traps to prevent theft. Considering the entire NZ native forest is going to be full of stealth grows this summer, you might instead just want to plant several crops instead of defending one – save some poor dude their foot. Have some humanity...
And just before we get into the guide on stealth for growing this yummy crop, I wanted to draw your attention to a great little new addition to the Marijuana family. It’s called “Australian bastard cannabis”. It isn’t the most potent weed around, but it looks almost _nothing_ like marijuana. Check out the pictures, and you’ll see what I mean. Could be a real advantage having this strain, or a cross-breed for any stealth grows, as you can see...
Read more HERE.
This week I thought I’d do some harm minimisation. This is something that comes up alot, will I have a bad trip, how can I avoid it, what do I do now and so forth.
Of course the best way to avoid a bad trip, is to not take any drugs. If you are unfamiliar with a drug experience, you should always start with a lower dose, if you do choose to use a drug. It goes without saying this isn’t medical advice, and this is for informational purposes, and it is not encouragement to use drugs!
Feeling Safety
I personally found, back when I used psychedelics “safe” environments and certain soothing comforts, as well as familiar, trusted and friendly company - A good setting to be a great way to ensure a peaceful state of mind. Some people are heavy users of psychedelic drugs, and yet seem to be stable in the most confronting of environments, but that wasn’t my experience, at least with larger doses. The point is, enviroment has an effect, so think about where you are going to be, and who with.
Calm, happy & rested
They say “Set and setting” influences a trip. In other words, mood and enviroment impact on the trip. Of course emotional issues and especially the dosage can come into play. So you should be in a good frame of mind to start with, and good physical health, so that nothing holds you back in your experience.
This is the story of DMT or Dimethyltryptamine ... "The Spirit Molecule"
Written by NeoCheck out this teaser trailer to the documentary DMT: The Spirit Molecule
The Spirit Molecule explores the enigmatic dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a molecule found throughout nature, and considered the most potent psychedelic. In 1995, Dr. Strassman completed the first government-sanctioned, psychedelic research on DMT, with results that may answer humanitys greatest questions. View the Official website here.
For more information about DMT and Joe Rogan explaining his "trip" just click "Read More" and check it out below.
Select Comittee on Tobacco: Will tobbaco one day be black market and why arent e-cigs promoted more?
Written by Drael
Okay, I admit smoking is a personal issue for me, as a smoker. So I am biased. And while changes in policy with regard to smoking don't effect everyone, it is part of the larger approach toward drugs and connected increasingly to prohibitionists, as it becomes a demonized social pariah. Now smoking ain’t good for you at all, health effects rank up with things like driving fatalities and heart attacks (though for some reason cars and fatty food, the later of which is a bigger killer don't get the same bad rap). And its said to rank around the same level of addictiveness as cocaine. Pretty damn addictive. So if harm caused by personal use of unhealthy drugs where ever an issue for the government (debatable really), this might actually be a good example drug.
So, increasingly both alcohol and tobacco, moreso the later are being targeted for regulation changes and hyped in the media as moral evils. Its kind of interesting to see, as I’ve said, because these drugs do actually rate as harmful on many measures, unlike the drugs normally targeted. Of course, like the drugs normally targeted, these somehow find themselves becoming a moral issue with unmeasured or thought out responses.
The Maori affairs select committee have come out with a bunch of intense recommendations, including NZ being “smoke free” by 2025. Of course not all of this will been taken seriously, John Key said it was “a big ask“, and Maori have become extraordinarily hardline on smoking, but there's no doubt the general trend is toward more and more regulation, possibly eventual ban. Already volatile groups like prisoners and mental patients are being, or going to be, denied cigarettes. Something which can’t help those institutions much. Not to mention, people with mental illness may actually avoid treatment because they will be denied their smokes.
UK & NZ / Looking for legal highs users for a French TV documentary
Written by NeoGot this from a French Journalist, if you're genuinely interested in providing some real information and experience, you should contact them and credit TripMe;
"Hi, I'm a French journalist working for the French pay TV Canal Plus (the French HBO) on a documentary about new recreational drugs, such as mephedrone and 'legal highs' one can buy on the internet (wether legal or illegal).
We intend to compare what happens in France with the UK, where the phenomenon seems to be on a larger scale, and with New-Zeland where BZP party pills have been legal at one point.
For our documentary, we are looking for users of these products in order to testimony:why do they use these products, in which context, what do they think of them, how do they ensure that they are good quality, etc...
If that can be of any interest to you, please contact me there
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Of course we guarantee anonymity and confidentiality.
Thanks for your help!"
Also here is some of the Latest Drug News from around the world;
Police: 14-Year-Old Had $500K, Weapons, Drugs In Home
More drug companies exposed for paying off doctors to illegally prescribe drugs
Mexican student made police chief in drugs war town
Angelina Jolie's cocaine and heroin habits revisited by her old drug dealer
Dopamine Model Could Play Role in Treating Schizophrenia and Drug Addiction
Hemp Is the Far Bigger Economic Issue Hiding Behind Legal Marijuana
Russian Site claims US Supports Afghan Drug Lords
"I've pretty much lost count of how many years I'd had been on opiates. Looking back, it was probably late 2003 that I started using daily. I was pretty much a full time druggie, mainly weed, booze, e's & psychedelics at the time, but I loved codeine when I could get a hold of it.
Someone had showed me how to make poppy seed tea but my first dose was big enough to make me very ill for many unpleasant hours, so I forgot about it for a year or so. At the time I was making a half arsed attempt at university and doing student job search work for extra drug money, pretty much living for the weekends. I am a raver from way back, and was pretty heavily into my pills. This was back in the day that you could pretty much guarantee that any picture stamped pill on the illicit market would be a good strong mix of mdma/mda/mdea, and maybe a dash of amphetamine.
(There's a few more if you click read more, may not be suitable for work :P)
I found a few tidbits this week, on Ketamine, which doesn’t get much press as a therapeutic psychedelic. Firstly it appears Ketamine treatment is very effective as a treatment for alcoholism (68% sobriety one year after treatment). Check it out here.
Ketamine has also show promise for treating other addictions, like Heroin.
Its also proven to be an effective instant acting treatment for depression.
And more generally in psychedelic therapy, anxiety is a major target for psychedelic treatments. Here is an article about anxiety and magic mushrooms.
The Chinese laboratories where scientists are already at work on the new 'meow meow'
Written by Neo
In a filthy Shanghai laboratory, chemists make batches of mephedrone - and a new incarnation of the 'plant food' linked to the deaths of British teenagers. Never heard of the drugs Eric-1 and Eric-2? That's the point. By Mike Power in London and Simon Parry in China
Young, rich and brimming with energy, Eric embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of modern China. He sits at his desk beneath a cabinet of spirits and cigars that he dispenses liberally to his overseas clients while secretaries totter in and out carrying samples and price lists.
Eric, 35, wears designer clothes, drives a Buick SUV and works such long hours his wife moans that he treats the luxury villa where they live like a hotel. But for all his infectious charm as he chats and jokes at his offi ce in an up-market Shanghai apartment block, there is a sinister side to the business that has made this chemistry graduate conspicuously wealthy.
The biggest MAPS conference since the return to proper research on psychedelics is on this weekend in the US, San Jose, California, so I’m writing about LSD research. From the crazy research in early days, and in the military, to the promising therapeutic side, its all pretty interesting stuff. In 1949, when LSD was introduced to the US, specialist scientists from the military to psychiatry leapt enthusiastically straight into research on the compound.
