CLEVELAND (WJW) — The Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) is warning Northeast Ohioans about illegal
methamphetamine pills being distributed on our streets.
The distribution and use of
methamphetamine (meth) is on the rise across the nation, a DEA source told FOX
8 Monday. Mexican drug trafficking organizations have become the primary
manufacturers and distributors of meth in the US.
Those organizations make the
drugs in Mexico and then bring them into the US and they are distributed across
the country, including in Northeast Ohio.
However, the meth industry has
been evolving. In addition to distributing the drug in powder or crystal form,
the DEA has now seen an increase of meth pills being sold in Northeast Ohio.
Officials believe this is in part
because meth is easier to mail and get across the US-Mexico border when in pill
form.
The pills are small, colorful and
often resemble candy.
The DEA says citizens, especially
parents as these pills can look appealing to children, need to be alert. They
should check all candy and pills before consumption.
Ohioans should look for stamped
pharmaceutical codes on all pills. However, the DEA warns that code markings
may not be enough to identify counterfeit pills as “makers have gotten more
sophisticated,” adding that it can be hard to distinguish between a
pharmaceutical and a homemade pill with the naked eye.
The DEA says the biggest clue for
identifying illegal drugs is the packaging. Pharmaceutical companies have
certain labeling and packaging requirements they must apply to every bottle,
vial or other consumer container intended to hold drugs. Meth pills will most
likely not be found in that type of packaging.
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ReplyDeleteOhio has been in play for awhile already but those northeastern states is gonna be washed in meth.
ReplyDeleteThe folks can't say they weren't warned, many just weren't listening.
While they watched 'breaking bad' reality was moving outside their TV's. Certain DTO's were making plans and pushing in.
The homeless become their eyes and ears, colonized twitchers and muttering tweakers who will protect their masters for a couple of puffs of fakelove.
The narcojuniors will drive by in nice SUV's on their way to college, laughing at the dumb trash getting high on the shit. Even though it pays for their plastic home, expensive vacations, and their girls plastic surgery, there will be something missing. I call it heart and soul.
Nobody puts a gun to the head of a drug user in the vast majority of cases. Let them pay the price for their stupidity if they overdose and such.
Delete@11:17 — You reap what you sow. Judge harshly and the same will happen to you.
DeleteI can Judge and it WONT happen to me *Why because I wouldnt touch illegal drugs
DeleteWhat you said above is so stupid 2:42
Only ones I care about are the Children .
1117 and 747 well re read the blog guey the meth looks like candy.
DeleteIt's part of capitalism. The outdated and worthless working class will be replaced by automation. Let the unemployed proletariat enjoy a humane euthanasia.
Delete7:47 your children will not ask you for permision when they get some "for free"
Delete@ 11:17 and 7:47 there's plenty of smart and successful people who used drugs. Grow up.
Delete9:32 I've heard of a few kids getting sick after taking these pills as candy but never addicted. Why? Because ypu don't buy them at a grocery store like regular candy first of all and second they were taken by accident meaning that the will to using them is taken away hence their addiction to these are almost completely nill in the vast majority of cases.
DeleteThey have also been around decades so most any idiot taking these is doing so intentionally. Grow up!
3:38 so then why should we NOT allow cartels to sell drugs in this country then?
DeleteI mean if everybody has the potential to use them and be successful still why are they illegal?
4:53
DeleteSo some poor kids parent is going to leave these laying around for the kid to just happen across a bag of what the child thinks is candy. Kid eats some then dies from overdose all the while thinking it was just candy
That’s the problem with looking like candy
That's the problem with drugs. Fathers can become addicted. Don't blame the drug for the fathers stupidity however!
Delete2:38. Many kids die every year because they drown in their family swimming pool yet we don't blame the pool for that correct?
DeleteWhy are drugs treated different?
7:47 legal opioids prescribe legal by legal doctors left millions and millions of addicted americana behind...
DeleteAmerican lawmakers in congress and the senate approved the laws needed because lobbyists for Big Pharma made them see the light with kickbacks...
President Obama signed the legislation in exchange for some of his programs amd laws like Medicare getting pases in congress,
they call it horse trading in government, do not blame or shame "the addicts"
they dont care about arms going south and now is to late to worried about the apetito they have .
ReplyDeleteThey're probably being sold as "ecstasy" (MDMA) and the kidz these days can't tell the difference. MDMA is more difficult/expensive to make and is more costly per dose than meth. So presto! Make meth into pills and brandify it for the EDM generation. Have you seen Molly? LOL
ReplyDeleteDon't get hooked is all I can say, you try it once and its only downhill from there
ReplyDeleteMeth that resembles candy? Yeah it’s called ecstasy
ReplyDeletetheres been an uprise in meth based "extacy" pills here among the festival scene. in fact dealers are so blatant about it that they advertise them as "speedy" vs. "smacky", and some consumers prefer them like that. I wish narcos made real extacy lol.
DeleteIt's been like that since before narcos got into the pill business... Hell, there are pills made up of so many different substances that there's a site that tests them and tells you what they contain, some even contain dewormers,, WTF... But they are in the molly business too, it makes its way up from Guadalajara where most ecstacy pills come from in Mexico. There's even green and purple molly now a days
Deletenobody is going to give away free drugs
ReplyDeleteIn Quebec Canada, these pills have existed since the mid 90’s. They were first introduced as peaches and strawberries because of their respective colors. They also resembled Chews gum. They were sold at raves as “speed pills” but they were full of crystal which kept you partying all night.
ReplyDeleteIn the mid 2000‘s the ICE. pills became big, which were the same thing. Same thing, new look ,repeat...