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Search results for "Ecstasy" ...
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The "X" Files
NBC reports on clandestine ecstasy labs. The investigation leads to "an anonymous guru who created a website which teaches people how to make illegal drugs such as meth and ecstasy." The report sheds light on the website, called the Hive, and examines the identity of the guru known under the pseudonym Strike and suspected for having ties with a huge Mexican drug cartel. The investigating team also tracks down some of the chemical suppliers that provided the ingredients needed to make ecstasy.
Tags: TAPE; TRASNCRIPT; colleges; students; crime; law enforcement; police; Internet; chemistry; X files
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The suburbs hidden scourge
The Daily Herald examines the quiet infiltration of heroin and "club drugs" into Chicago's western and northwestern suburbs. Their investigation found that heroin and club drugs such as ecstasy and meth were responsible for the deaths of 13 suburban teens and young adults. Parents in many of the communities were unable to spot the drug usage before it was too late; while authorities are unable to stop the flow of drugs into the suburbs because the source of many of the drugs is unknown. The series deals with how teens and young adults by and get hooked on drugs as well as the effect it has on their families. The reporters also look into the efforts being made at stopping the drug influx and how teens are rehabilitated.
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I Want A New Drug
The New Times reports on the growing use of the euphoria inducing drug GHB. It's use as a recreational drug is expanding beyond the rave and club scene. And while it does not have the prominence of cocain, heroin, pot or ecstasy, it has lead to a number of deaths. GHB is especially dangerous when mixed with alcohol or other drugs.
Tags: GHB
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Free at Last! Free at Last!
Glamour tells the story of Amy Ralston Pofahl, the former wife of a drug kingpin. Ralston (she no longer goes by her married name) found out her ex-husband, Sandy Pofahl, was the mastermind of a syndicate that made and distributed Ecstasy when he was arrested in 1989. Even though they had been separated for a year, Ralston agreed to help Pofahl make bail by recovering some of his drug profits at various, secret locations. Ralston had no idea this was illegal. During the trial, Pofahl implicated Ralston into the syndicate. She ended up receiving a sentence of 24-years in jail, while he only got one of four years. Glamour profiled Ralston in the June 1999 issue. President Clinton heard of her story and granted her clemency. This article tells the story of what happened to Ralston following her release from jail.
Tags: Amy Ralston Pofahl; President Bill Clinton; Sandy Pofahl; jail; prison; Ecstasy; drug laws; mandatory sentencing
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E - commerce
This article takes an in-depth look at the growing ecstasy culture that's been popularized by widespread use of the drug in major cities, and how the medical and law enforcement communities are reacting to it.
Tags: Drugs; law enforcement; ecstasy; raves
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What is Special K? How an Animal Tranquilizer became New York's Latest Drug Craze.
Village Voice reports that "Its street name is Special K, so-called after the breakfast cereal. To veterinarians, however, it's better known as ketamine, an anesthetic with short-term, hallucinogenic properties. And despite periodic shortages, it's all the rage in trendy Manhattan nightclubs at the moment.According to some night-crawlers, it's now surpassed Ecstasy in popularity..."
Tags: psychedelic K-land K-hole K-train Vitamin K hallucinogenic recreational drug
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Time Magazine profiles the cyberpunk movement, a growing counter-culture movement made up of computer hackers, futurists, fringe scientists, computer-savvy artists and musicians, and assorted science-fiction afficionados who are obsessed with technology that is just beyond their reach; describes cyberpunk as the defining counterculture of the computer age and outlines the music, orthodoxy, and vocabulary of the movement. Elmer-Dewitt punk raves cybernetics internet William Gibson Ecstasy Timothy Leary William S. Burroughs LSD Techno
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No title (id: 8673)
London (U.K.) Times Saturday Review looks at the growing popularity of the drug called Ecstasy, the "love drug," which is the rave in the underground youth culture based on the Manchester, England music and dance-club scene, Feb. 22, 1992.
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