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Yaba in the US ?

Yep, we're starting to get them...
*total failure to get UBB to take this url....*
at Ecstasydata.org, a sort by substance suggests you are correct.
[ 25 August 2002: Message edited by: djfriendly ]
 
I'm sorry I couldn't get the URL to go in, UBB seems to interepret two of the characters as an emoticon!
Just type "methamphetamine" in the search field and select "By Substance." We've already had at least a couple which sound like the "crazy pills" flooding Asia.
Here's one example: http://www.ecstasydata.org/viewtablet.php?ID=966
[ 26 August 2002: Message edited by: djfriendly ]
 
is "yaba" a different enough type of methamphetamine to be able to idnetify it as such?i mean we've had methamphetamine pills for years.
i've always considered "yaba" simply a media phenomenom. sure it exists, but it is only a regional name for a very common substance.
 
I think there was a post a while back saying that yaba was actually a mix of amphetamines (mostly meth though). But the different mix of amphetamines is what made yaba slightly different then meth.
 
I agree with Johnboy, it's just slang...judging from what we know about the ecstasy market, I think it's safe to assume "Yaba" (I mean come on, it translates to "crazy pills," not very technical sounding!) pills vary in their content, whether Meth, Amph, a combo, or (why not?) sometimes other stimulants entirely.
 
It's kinda hard to say if there's a trend though. Pills containing speed only have been around, sporadically, but it's still much more common as an adulterant. I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing more, but the bad guys here seem to favor cheaply adulterating weak doses of MDxA lately, I guess to fool us testers.
I will say this, though - I really don't know about what the report was saying about them being popular here. For sure, they're being sold as fake E, not speed.
[ 27 August 2002: Message edited by: djfriendly ]
 
Asian Speed Shows Up, Feds Feed USA Today "New Drug" Story
"Fed Raid Targets New Asian Drug," screamed the
headline in USA Today on August 21, as Gannett Corporation headline writers dutifully regurgitated a story spoon-fed their reporter by US Customs officials. The feds had busted 10 people in the Sacramento area on conspiracy charges for attempting to import a "new drug," known as "Ya Ba," into the United States. The "new drug," however, is not so new: Ya Ba (Thai for "crazy medicine") is plain old methamphetamine, produced in pill form by mass production laboratories operated by Burmese rebels the
United Wa States Army.
The stuff has fed a speed frenzy across Southeast Asia and has been dribbling into the US for at least the last two years -- Customs said it had seized 45 shipments since 2000 -- but the Sacramento bust appears to mark the coming out party for a new "drug threat." Ya Ba packs a "powerful and long-lasting high stronger than that provided by the club drug Ecstasy," worried USA Today, and more insidiously, the pills are often flavored, "apparently to make them more appealing to young people," Customs told the newspaper.
The "powerful methamphetamine from Asia is gaining favor among teens and young adults on the West Coast," Customs warned USA Today. Heck, maybe they'll stop blowing themselves up with kitchen meth labs.
from DRCnet
[ 31 August 2002: Message edited by: johnboy ]
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