SOURCE: http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/news11076.html
THIS is the smirking Mr Big flooding Britain with deadly meow meow - the killer drug claiming young lives as it sweeps across the country.
Unscrupulous Rokas Einikis, 24, is free to sell the legal high mephedrone by the KILO to distributors.
He and his sidekicks cash in as Commons leader Harriet Harman dithers and waits for reports from experts before deciding whether to ban the drug.
"I can supply you 100 kilos of mephedrone A MONTH," Rokas boasted to an undercover reporter. "They could ban it but it would take at least six months for all the laws. They won't do it before the election because they are obviously busy."
Our investigation also reveals how schoolkids, not just clubbers, are experimenting with meow meow - which is openly sold to children as young as 12 over the counter at High Street shops for £15 a packet.
The lethal substance - sold as a party drug - increases heart rate and causes terrifying hallucinations, paranoia, fits and delusions.
Lithuanian Rokas, a 6ft 6ins former basketball player, brings wholesale quantities of the drug into Britain from Europe every week. His company runs websites selling a range of legal highs through the post and is trying to recruit more UK dealers.
One website claims: "We have just developed an incense which will go around UK and European laws and is as strong - if not stronger - than the old JWH blends (a banned cannabis substitute). So only here you can get legal, lower prices and better products for your country.
"Let us know your country laws and we will offer you a huge range of products legal in your country. Like herbal mix, party pills, party powders and anything you want for your shop, internet shop or for yourself."
Rokas offers a range of 54 different substances. But his best seller is meow meow - known as just miaow on the club scene because the letters MMCAT make up the spelling of the chemical (4-methylmethcathinone).
The powder, which can be sold legally if labelled as "plant food" and not for human consumption, has been linked to several deaths.
Last weekend Louis Wainwright, 18, and Nicholas Smith, 19, died within hours of each other in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. Both are believed to have taken mephedrone on a night out clubbing. At least three other deaths have been linked to the drug in Britain, as well as a string of fatalities in Norway and Finland - where it has been banned. And scores of youngsters are turning up in hospitals here after experimenting with the drug. But Rokas, who lives in the Isle of Dogs, east London, callously dismissed its dangers when he met undercover reporters posing as potential dealers.
He said: "You haven't read the articles? It came out on Wednesday about two guys. I read the article, I believe they were taking a lot."
He tried to smear the tragic teenagers by falsely claiming: "They had this stuff and another called methadone (heroin substitute). They took so much and then in order to go to sleep they had to take methadone.
"When you're addicted to heroin you use methadone to ease the pain. It calms you down. That's harmful. This gets you up and this gets you down. It's their fault."
As he sipped tea in London's Canary Wharf, Rokas went on to wrongly claim there have been no deaths directly linked to his drug.
Rokas offered wholesale quantities of mephedrone - up to 10 kilos at a time.
He said: "It's £5,600 for a kilo. Would you like to do it in cash? We prefer bank transfers. I come from a country where we don't do cheques. How do you want it packed? Ones, twos, tens (grams)?
"You can tell the quality by trying it, that's the only way. And the less smell it has the better it is. The powder is the same as the crystals, only crushed. It works faster."
Rokas explained the way to sell the drug was to claim it is not for human consumption. "You're buying plant food or bath salts," he said with a wink. And he claimed the answer was also to run a legitimate business paying the government taxes. He is the sole director of Lauxnos Ltd, which is registered with Companies House.
On Friday, our investigators wat- ched as a 15-year-old boy bought a packet of mephedrone with no questions asked at the Hippie Heaven shop, which sells drugs paraphernalia, in Ealing, West London.
When he asked for meow meow, the portly, bespectacled salesman replied: "Sorry we've only got plant food. We've got a list of everything that's available on the fridge" - pointing to a refrigerator behind the counter full of a range of legal highs.
"Bath salts are proving very, very, popular," he said with a knowing smile. "What can I say, that's how we have to sell them Sir! 200 milligrams for £15, 500 milligrams for £30 and a gram is £45."
He recommended a small packet called Lunar Wave. "I enjoy my baths," he said with a huge grin as he charged £15 for the packet. It bore the words "not for human consumption" and claimed to contain "Soothing Bath Salts" - but in fact it contained mephedrone. The boy said: "Me and my mates have been buying drugs from this shop for months. It's easier than getting it off the internet because then it turns up at your house and your parents find out.
"I've been in with a 12-year-old and not been asked any questions. The shop know half our school are at it but they are only interested in making money. There's a few shops selling it."
The News of the World took possession of all the substances bought by the boy. When we confronted the salesman he attacked our reporter by pushing and shoving him.
He grabbed our photographer's lens and claimed: "We don't sell meow meow!" When asked what his bath salts contained, he replied: "I have absolutely no idea. I don't know what you're talking about. Do what you like!"
He can afford to be cocky. There's nothing anyone can do to stop the dealers until the government introduces new laws.
Teens' death boosts trade
DEALERS of meow meow say business is BOOMING - despite the deaths of Louis Wainwright and Nicholas Smith.
A News of the World investigation found demand has SHOT UP following publicity surrounding the tragedies.
One dealer told us: "I've been busier than ever this week. All this fuss about the drug has just got more people interested."
Our investigators were easily able to get hold of the white powder after simple searches on the internet.
We also bought the drug - mass produced legally in China as "plant food" - in a shop in Birmingham. An estimated 400 firms in China, including universities and research institutes, produce the chemicals in mass quantities to be exported.
Scores of UK-based websites, claiming to be selling plant food, have been set up offering swift delivery of meow meow.
A 22-year-old university student called Jay, from north London, met our investigator at a Tube station after demanding a minimum order of five grams for £60.
He dropped a wrapped package of his "high quality" white crystal powder into our reporter's handbag in exchange for the cash. Jay, who said he was taking a leadership course at London Metropolitan University, explained: "There's so many people just before the pub and just after the pub who want to 'fertilise their plants'."
In Widnes, Cheshire, dealer Rick was unconcerned about peddling the deadly drug. An hour after calling his number, which we obtained from a website, he met our reporter to hand over three grams of meow meow for £30.
An investigator also bought a 0.25g packet of meow meow in health and beauty shop Zen in Moseley High Street, Birmingham. A female shopkeeper offered it in 1g, 0.5g and 0.25g bags - but when asked about its safety for humans or how to use it, she replied: "I'm sorry, I'm allowed to sell it to you but I am not allowed to tell you how to take it."
Our man was given the packet, labelled as Shake and Vac carpet freshener. Inside was a clear pouch with a gun logo containing the powder. His £12 receipt called his purchase a "legal high".
One source close to the drug industry warned: "The reality is meow meow sales may surge over the next couple of weeks... before a new law comes in."
SOURCE: http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/news11076.html
THIS is the smirking Mr Big flooding Britain with deadly meow meow - the killer drug claiming young lives as it sweeps across the country.
Unscrupulous Rokas Einikis, 24, is free to sell the legal high mephedrone by the KILO to distributors.
He and his sidekicks cash in as Commons leader Harriet Harman dithers and waits for reports from experts before deciding whether to ban the drug.
"I can supply you 100 kilos of mephedrone A MONTH," Rokas boasted to an undercover reporter. "They could ban it but it would take at least six months for all the laws. They won't do it before the election because they are obviously busy."
Our investigation also reveals how schoolkids, not just clubbers, are experimenting with meow meow - which is openly sold to children as young as 12 over the counter at High Street shops for £15 a packet.
The lethal substance - sold as a party drug - increases heart rate and causes terrifying hallucinations, paranoia, fits and delusions.
Lithuanian Rokas, a 6ft 6ins former basketball player, brings wholesale quantities of the drug into Britain from Europe every week. His company runs websites selling a range of legal highs through the post and is trying to recruit more UK dealers.
One website claims: "We have just developed an incense which will go around UK and European laws and is as strong - if not stronger - than the old JWH blends (a banned cannabis substitute). So only here you can get legal, lower prices and better products for your country.
"Let us know your country laws and we will offer you a huge range of products legal in your country. Like herbal mix, party pills, party powders and anything you want for your shop, internet shop or for yourself."
Rokas offers a range of 54 different substances. But his best seller is meow meow - known as just miaow on the club scene because the letters MMCAT make up the spelling of the chemical (4-methylmethcathinone).
The powder, which can be sold legally if labelled as "plant food" and not for human consumption, has been linked to several deaths.
Last weekend Louis Wainwright, 18, and Nicholas Smith, 19, died within hours of each other in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. Both are believed to have taken mephedrone on a night out clubbing. At least three other deaths have been linked to the drug in Britain, as well as a string of fatalities in Norway and Finland - where it has been banned. And scores of youngsters are turning up in hospitals here after experimenting with the drug. But Rokas, who lives in the Isle of Dogs, east London, callously dismissed its dangers when he met undercover reporters posing as potential dealers.
He said: "You haven't read the articles? It came out on Wednesday about two guys. I read the article, I believe they were taking a lot."
He tried to smear the tragic teenagers by falsely claiming: "They had this stuff and another called methadone (heroin substitute). They took so much and then in order to go to sleep they had to take methadone.
"When you're addicted to heroin you use methadone to ease the pain. It calms you down. That's harmful. This gets you up and this gets you down. It's their fault."
As he sipped tea in London's Canary Wharf, Rokas went on to wrongly claim there have been no deaths directly linked to his drug.
Rokas offered wholesale quantities of mephedrone - up to 10 kilos at a time.
He said: "It's £5,600 for a kilo. Would you like to do it in cash? We prefer bank transfers. I come from a country where we don't do cheques. How do you want it packed? Ones, twos, tens (grams)?
"You can tell the quality by trying it, that's the only way. And the less smell it has the better it is. The powder is the same as the crystals, only crushed. It works faster."
Rokas explained the way to sell the drug was to claim it is not for human consumption. "You're buying plant food or bath salts," he said with a wink. And he claimed the answer was also to run a legitimate business paying the government taxes. He is the sole director of Lauxnos Ltd, which is registered with Companies House.
On Friday, our investigators wat- ched as a 15-year-old boy bought a packet of mephedrone with no questions asked at the Hippie Heaven shop, which sells drugs paraphernalia, in Ealing, West London.
When he asked for meow meow, the portly, bespectacled salesman replied: "Sorry we've only got plant food. We've got a list of everything that's available on the fridge" - pointing to a refrigerator behind the counter full of a range of legal highs.
"Bath salts are proving very, very, popular," he said with a knowing smile. "What can I say, that's how we have to sell them Sir! 200 milligrams for £15, 500 milligrams for £30 and a gram is £45."
He recommended a small packet called Lunar Wave. "I enjoy my baths," he said with a huge grin as he charged £15 for the packet. It bore the words "not for human consumption" and claimed to contain "Soothing Bath Salts" - but in fact it contained mephedrone. The boy said: "Me and my mates have been buying drugs from this shop for months. It's easier than getting it off the internet because then it turns up at your house and your parents find out.
"I've been in with a 12-year-old and not been asked any questions. The shop know half our school are at it but they are only interested in making money. There's a few shops selling it."
The News of the World took possession of all the substances bought by the boy. When we confronted the salesman he attacked our reporter by pushing and shoving him.
He grabbed our photographer's lens and claimed: "We don't sell meow meow!" When asked what his bath salts contained, he replied: "I have absolutely no idea. I don't know what you're talking about. Do what you like!"
He can afford to be cocky. There's nothing anyone can do to stop the dealers until the government introduces new laws.
Teens' death boosts trade
DEALERS of meow meow say business is BOOMING - despite the deaths of Louis Wainwright and Nicholas Smith.
A News of the World investigation found demand has SHOT UP following publicity surrounding the tragedies.
One dealer told us: "I've been busier than ever this week. All this fuss about the drug has just got more people interested."
Our investigators were easily able to get hold of the white powder after simple searches on the internet.
We also bought the drug - mass produced legally in China as "plant food" - in a shop in Birmingham. An estimated 400 firms in China, including universities and research institutes, produce the chemicals in mass quantities to be exported.
Scores of UK-based websites, claiming to be selling plant food, have been set up offering swift delivery of meow meow.
A 22-year-old university student called Jay, from north London, met our investigator at a Tube station after demanding a minimum order of five grams for £60.
He dropped a wrapped package of his "high quality" white crystal powder into our reporter's handbag in exchange for the cash. Jay, who said he was taking a leadership course at London Metropolitan University, explained: "There's so many people just before the pub and just after the pub who want to 'fertilise their plants'."
In Widnes, Cheshire, dealer Rick was unconcerned about peddling the deadly drug. An hour after calling his number, which we obtained from a website, he met our reporter to hand over three grams of meow meow for £30.
An investigator also bought a 0.25g packet of meow meow in health and beauty shop Zen in Moseley High Street, Birmingham. A female shopkeeper offered it in 1g, 0.5g and 0.25g bags - but when asked about its safety for humans or how to use it, she replied: "I'm sorry, I'm allowed to sell it to you but I am not allowed to tell you how to take it."
Our man was given the packet, labelled as Shake and Vac carpet freshener. Inside was a clear pouch with a gun logo containing the powder. His £12 receipt called his purchase a "legal high".
One source close to the drug industry warned: "The reality is meow meow sales may surge over the next couple of weeks... before a new law comes in."
SOURCE: http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/news11076.html
