Oxi -- More Dangerous than Crack

[Venado]

<p>I just saw this and thought there is no limit to the madness of drug use. From the Hindi times.</p>

<p>[The</a> Hindu : Health / Policy & Issues : Oxi: Cheaper but more dangerous than crack cocaine](<a href=“http://www.thehindu.com/health/policy-and-issues/article2065486.ece?homepage=true]The”>http://www.thehindu.com/health/policy-and-issues/article2065486.ece?homepage=true)</p>

[mantori.suzuki]

<p>Oh, I just love this kind of “journalism” (and I use the term ever-so-loosely).</p>

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“The difference between cocaine and oxi is like the difference between drinking beer and pure alcohol,” said a federal police operative on the Peru-Brazil border, who refused to be named.

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It is **reputedly **twice as powerful as crack cocaine and just a fifth of the price.

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Oxi surfaced in the Amazonian border region between Brazil, Bolivia and Peru in the 1980s, and is **said to have been **originally used by a small number of hippies…

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A series of recent **suspected seizures **in cities such as Sao Paulo, Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro have propelled it into the national headlines. Health workers and politicians warn of a catastrophe if its spread is confirmed.

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Jose Serra, a leading opposition politician and former governor of Sao Paulo, wrote in a recent column in the national daily Estado de Sao Paulo, describing oxi on his Twitter account as a “weapon of mass destruction”.

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On condition of anonymity, an addict agreed to escort the Guardian to his oxi den…

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<p>So, let’s see if I understand this. Unnamed people say that there is said to be a drug that is said to be very powerful and that it may, if it exists and if people are using it as much as some people think they are, be really, really bad, as described by someone on Twitter.</p>

<p>I guess I should panic now or something?</p>

[DocT]

<p>There are all kinds of drugs out there and distributed in ways that are quite interesting. There are chemical companies distributing drugs using chemical names and marketing them as not for human or animal consumption but for “research purposes”. They are legal in some states and some countries but the law is starting to catch up with some of this stuff.</p>