Saturday, April 30, 2011

"OXI" known as the drug of death

A new form of Crack Cocaine, that is mixed with kerosene or gasoline, acetone, battery fluid and other chemicals.  If you didn't know crack cocaine is smoked, by the users, and extremely addictive.  In brasil they say these new form is much cheaper than usual crack and Highly addictive.
The Drug was first spotted and made noticed to the government in 2004.  The stopped smugglers with in on the borders of the amazon and state of 
Acre.  The countries that are evolved with the smuggling are the bordering countries of boliva and peru, where the coco plant is grown on a large agricultural scale.  From that initial bust, Oxi has popped up all over the northeastern part of brasil, leaving behind a trail of death spreading from state to state.  The national fear is that the drug will reach the major cities like Rio de Jenerio, San Paulo and brasilia.  Huge metro and urban cities where crack is already an epidemic.  The fear lies in the price, the normal street value of a rock of crack is about 6 U.S. dollars in brasil, this new Oxi is about 1 dollar 20 cents.  I think the brasilian government is scared that they have a lot of the world coming to see and visit brasil and it would be devastating to the countries tourism if the drug causes an epidemic on the streets, like cocaine did in the 80's in on the east coast.  Except this drug is much heavier!
Users take on a yellowish skin color, lose weight very quickly and develop liver problems. They start to look like emaciated living corpses in just a few weeks time. The drug causes stomach aches, vomiting and constant diarrhea, but perhaps the most alarming fact is that most users die within a year.  That's really bad, its almost like a poison, and will maybe wipe itself out, because I can't think how the government can try to battle a drug that cheap.  Good thing it isn't in excess yet, they can still pass extremely harsh laws to kind of slow down the small time traffickers from wanting to sell it or ; Make stiff penalties to people who traffic it into the country, like lets say the "Death Penalty"...That might be a little harsh for south America, but Asia does have laws that are very stiff.  But it would cause the price to increase and then maybe the users will realize that its effects aren't worth its price!

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