doing a bit of research and being from bend myself, here is what i have found about sunshine:
It is definitely no April Fools Joke. Search KOHD's website for an admission of a joke. You won't find it and it would definitely be there. Furthermore, people on the school board and BPD do not have a sense of humor and take things like this way too seriously.
Also, the Bend Police does not necessarily have a very legitimate drug testing program. Most of the drugs seized in bend are standard, well-known drugs: meth, cocaine, marijuana, psilosibin mushrooms, lsd, ecstasy, etc., not variations. Bend is much smaller and isn't exposed to "off brand" compounds popularizing in larger cities like Portland or Eugene. It is likely that the police department does not have a chem lab that they can analyze drugs in, only standard testing facilities. A new drug in bend is never seen and a large deal.
It has been trickling its way through the drug web in Central Oregon since sometime in the early winter. Many people who are experienced Ecstasy and MDMA users, as well as cocaine and LSD users, have described it as having a few distinct similarities with both MDMA and cocaine but being a distinctly different drug. Some also describe an accompanying hallucinogenic effect similar to that of LSD.
Some theories to describe this are as follows: 1. It is simply cocaine mixed with ecstacy that someone named Sunshine and has been making a killing on because kids are too stupid to realize. 2. It is a relatively unknown chemical similar to MDMA that has made its way to bend, or a mix of that and cocaine.
It is unlikely that it is the first. For one, I'm sure the police would have been able to catch a mix of cocaine and MDMA. Second it doesn't really explain the described hallucinogenic effect the drug having distinct differences between both of them. Keep in mind, however, that all of the known cases were in high school kids who are very inexperienced when it comes to drugs and often times don't know what they're talking about.
My personal belief is that it is some chemical that a chemist from Eugene or Portland or Seattle or something cooked up that hasn't really been popularized outside of select cultures that is making its way into a new place. Most of the people doing it don't even know what it is.
I hope I have helped some of you guys out. I'm really sorry I don't have a whole lot of sources for you guys but most of what I said is based on personal observation so your just going to have to take it or leave it...but I don't think I would have spent this much time just to bullshit you.
