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Conscious21

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Hi guys,

The Courier-Mail is reporting that some of the fanta around in the Valley atm is dodgy. It's the usual sensationalist crap, although the chaplain guy is alright from what I've heard.

Can anyone confirm whether this is true or just media hype?

Here is the article:
Fantasy turns to terror for druggies

A TOXIC batch of illicit drugs is causing "paranoia almost to the point of terror" for users from Fortitude Valley to Logan.
The Courier-Mail can reveal concerned ambulance crews warned police of the problem in the early hours of Sunday.

Sen-Sgt Geoff Marsh said the Queensland Ambulance Service had advised police that several people had collapsed in Fortitude Valley, possibly due to a toxic batch of fantasy.

Valley Liquor Accord chairman Danny Blair said police met three weeks ago with the precinct's licensees to discuss notorious illicit drugs fantasy and miaow miaow.

Fantasy, or Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid (GHB/GBH), is a depressant and date-rape drug usually sold in liquid form but also as a powder or tablet.

Miaow miaow is a stimulant with the principal ingredient of mephedrone, usually sold as a powder, tablet or capsule.

"The police have recently been making us aware there is a bad batch of drugs popping up lately," Mr Blair said.

Lance Mergard, senior chaplain at voluntary organisation NightWatch, said the potentially fatal influx of the illegal drugs could be filling a gap left by a drought in the supply of ecstasy.

He said his team of carers witnessed at least three users in the Valley last weekend suffering from the apparently dirty batch and in need of being taken to hospital.

"My observations on the street are there is a bad batch because of the extreme physical and psychological effects," he said.
"In some, the paranoia is almost to the point of terror.

"They are more severe reactions and physical responses than what we generally see but it's different for everyone."

So far, symptoms of the toxic batch include loss of feeling in arms and legs, severe confusion and anxiety, and increased heart rate.

Mr Mergard said the potentially dirtier batch, cut with unknown toxic ingredients, was circulating more in Brisbane's south and Logan than in the Valley, and middle-class youngsters from 18 to 25 were the most common victims.

He pleaded with affected users to confess to carers the drug they had consumed because they could not be charged with possession after ingestion and that information could save them immense pain.

Queensland Health's acting executive director of Preventative Health, Mark West, said reports of the bad batch were a timely warning that all illicit drugs were dangerous and toxic to users.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...ror-for-druggies/story-e6freoof-1225900226785
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Most brisbane people don't know how to use it safely. So that is mostly the cause of this article.

I've added quote boxes in your post for you as well. :)
 
so are they trying to say it was a bad batch of G? or a bad batch of "miaow"?

pretty shit article.....last time i checked it was the good batches of G that did that to people :-p

and definitely never heard it called fantasy....
 
CBF reading teh whole article but how the hell can there be a bad batch of GHB made? I mean u dont need to do anything with it if its GBL or its relatives as ur body will convert it to GHB anyway. Possibly people were diluting it with toxic materials? Which i dont get as im sure there are other "safer" diluters.
 
I read the article and checked the comments - one comment suggests drug causing problems was MDPV (or "ivory wave" ??!!).

The rest of the comments range from "end prohibition" to "kill the druggies"...
 
CBF reading teh whole article but how the hell can there be a bad batch of GHB made? I mean u dont need to do anything with it if its GBL or its relatives as ur body will convert it to GHB anyway.
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Not saying this was the cause, but if GHB is made from the lactone and any unreacted alkali not neutralised, this will be in the final product. There have been reports of NaOH poisonings.
 
phase_dancer said:
In Qld, at least, fantasy = G type drugs.
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From what I've been told by old ravers "it was marketed to us as fantasy, at the time we didn't care what it was. All that mattered was it got us fucked up."

anyone who was around when it first hit the scene, was that the name given by the media before the infamous 'grievioisly bodily harm' or was that what it was called in shops before it was made illegal?
 
heythatsmybike said:
anyone who was around when it first hit the scene, was that the name given by the media before the infamous 'grievioisly bodily harm' or was that what it was called in shops before it was made illegal?
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That was what some dealers used to call it. If you remember the Diane Brimble case the media called it Fantasy at first also.
 
^ From what I've read about the case recently they are still calling it that.

I am confused by this article. Was it adulterated GHB or mephedrone that was the problem here? The comment above about it possibly being MDPV makes me think it was a powder sold as mephedrone?
 
^^ Thats would explain the paranoia to the point of terror, if re-dosed. Which it would be.

Don't know how many hearts could survive Meph and MDPV for long though.

I combined Meth and Mephedrone for the second time the other week (Low and moderate dose, respectively) and had to go home due to a high heart rate, will never do that one again.
 
Funny the only time I used mephedrone I combined it with meth, after it didn't hit me as hard as I expected I cracked right into the 'speed'. For me personally it didn't cause unpleasant physical effects, but in general you are probably more at risk of this happening when combining stims than when sticking to one.
 
Yeah I've combined the two without problems (at least none immediately apparent at the time), but MDPV is particularly notorious for causing anxiety and increasing heart rate, as well as being tough to dose properly.
 
perhaps a mephadrone/2-cb mix....? ... Just throwing it out there..

I figure, those who were smart enough to stock up on these rc's while they were legal to import would have their stocks running dry by now... Rather then have to deal with 2 products, combine them as one...

Ive never done MPVD, researched it tho, it seems more likely the candidate, but, from my experiences with 2-cb (alot of confusion, paranoia, sweating, pacing for no reason), it could also be the additive. I have not had any experience with mephedrone at high doses (dont trust it).

Again, just a theory im throwing out there :P
 
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