Yep; ONE BILLLION methamphetamine pills go into Thailand from Burma each year.
Get your head around that figure; when we see 100,000 pill lots on the news we think thats quite large - well 10,000 TIMES that much in a calendar year - its utterly crazy.
And thats just the shitty "yaba" produced meth; probably of quality only reserved for these cheap dirty pills.
But of course from the same region we are also seeing this much better, much more potent and much more dangerous crystallised methamphetamine coming down here - why; probably because in Australia we will pay top dollar for it; whereas most poorer Thais may only opt for the cheap "yaba" meth pills. (a dollar or two each i think)
Burma is essentially like Colombia, but for methamphetamine especially and heroin instead of cocaine.
Violent milita groups, aided by a corrupt government, mass produces these type of drugs on a scale we here in Australia simply cannot fathom.
Australia's political climate, even with its wide open spaces, just wouldnt allow similar groups to get away with producing these illicit chemicals on this sort of scale. Thus its just so much easier to import it and chances are its the mules who will go down if someone is to go down at all.
KKKhold: i agree with Runner - u have said that for every sample of speed-like substance u have tested in 12months, whether called "whizz" or "ice" it has not reacted with E1.
That means you have never had either methamphetamine OR amphetamine once - thats just not possible unless u were constantly getting duped and bought glucose or the like.
Its all very well to claim 4-MAR on occasion, but to impliedly state that every single time you have bought speed regardless of its appearance or name, it was something other than an amphetamine is simply impossible.
I'd be betting a poor tester.
