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Drug dealers and users trade tips on internet site
October 22, 2009 12:01am
A WEBSITE acting as an open forum for ecstasy dealers and users is exposing the truth about Adelaide's drug underworld.
The pillreports.com website contains conversations between people about their experiences with drugs and the latest pills to hit the streets.
On the website, there are candid recommendations between users on what pills they deem "safe" to try, which is worrying experts.
Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia executive director Keith Evans said there was a cultural phenomenon emerging in which people saw themselves as "experts".
"It's a really worrying trend - the sort of culture that says `I got it from Jim. Everybody who's got their stuff from Jim has said Jim's stuff is good and therefore ipso facto I believe Jim's stuff is good, we'll all search out Jim'," he said.
"The reality isn't like that.
"Where Jim happens to have got it (the drugs) from will differ and even if you take out the legal consequences of it, you're always taking a gamble - it's Russian roulette."
The most recent Adelaide update on the pillreports website was submitted by user machetevip: "I'm going to be trying these Saturday night (ecstasy pills) and will update with a user report but so far these are looking quite good," he wrote.
A subsequent report detailed a timeline of machetevip's experience on the drugs.
"I was dancing and chatty and had some nice feelings on them," machetevip said.
There were 12 responses to the user report.
But Detective Inspector John De Candia said the health and legal consequences of illicit drug taking remained.
"Just because they're buying from the same seller does not mean they're buying from the same batch," he said. "It does not provide them any safeguards."
He said trafficking penalties in Australia for carrying commercial and large commercial quantities could result in "hefty penalties" ranging from 15 years to life imprisonment.
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