Police actions
- Project Lexus busts Ecstasy sales ring in Peel Region
In July of 2000, Peel Regional Police
Morality Bureau initiated Project 'Lexus'. This project focused on an
organized group of individuals involved in the importation and trafficking of
drugs specifically 'Ecstasy'. Several of the accused parties were involved in
the sale of stolen property and the operation of illegal massage parlours.
On January 17, 2001, a series of search warrants were executed with the
assistance of the Street Crime Unit and the Neighbourhood Police Units from 11
and 12 Division. A total of 15 people were arrested and charged with 29
Criminal Code and 21 Controlled Drugs and Substance offences. During the
course of the investigation 2 handguns were seized as well as 15,000 ecstasy
pills, $16,000 in cash and a quantity of Heroin, Cocaine and Marihuana. The
total street value of the drugs was in excess of $610,000.
Canada battles Rave drugs and loses
- Surveillance of Drug Overdose Deaths Using Medical Examiner Data in 1998 - not one mentions of raves or Ecstasy. Why is that? Those same drugs have killed many in Toronto, and our Provincial government sits around and calls an inquest.
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The Toronto Star has done many articles on the Rave scene and Ecstasy in Toronto. Here are just a few.
- Young teens are arrested at Pearson Airport with 38,000 doses of Ecstasy strapped to their bodies and the raves continue to plague core Toronto neighborhoods
- Police crackdown on Ecstasy
Police across Greater Toronto are stepping up their crackdown on the growing trade
in Ecstasy, the euphoria-inducing, mind-altering chemical that medical experts say
can cause brain damage.
Police are investigating Russian, East European and Asian crime groups, along with
biker gangs, that they believe are now involved in importing, manufacturing and
distributing the drug, with each vying for control of the exploding market.
- Strike force aims at illegal parties
A strike force has been set up to wage war on illegal raves and after-hours clubs.
The multi-agency task force was announced by Mayor Mel Lastman at Toronto
police headquarters yesterday after an all-day meeting to discuss the havoc caused by
illegal parties.
- Agonizing over Ecstacy Police and health care workers confirm what a legion of users already know: Ecstasy
in Ontario is moving from the rave scene to the mainstream, into the realm of 30-
and 40-something circles populated by lawyers and schoolteachers.
Ecstasy's growing number of converts now consume as many as 100,000 hits a
week in Ontario, according to new police estimates.
At $30 a pop - the average street price for Ecstasy - that's a retail industry worth
$150 million a year, and it's growing steadily.
- Ontario coroner warns about Ecstasy in drinks at New Years Eve parties
Ontario's Deputy Chief Coroner Jim Cairns
warned partygoers to keep their drinks within view
for New Years' Eve. Drinks could be spiked with roofies or GHB, a drug also
known as liquid ecstasy.
Both can cause short-term amnesia and have been used
as rape drugs.
- Toronto police say raves impossible to control - baloney!!! If the GTA men and women in blue can chase down priests on bicycles while pursuing a stolen van, and if they can chase another car thief with choppers and dozens of cars on the 401, they can certainly shut down the raves.
Ecstasy kills
- Health Canada - 1996 warning - New, Highly Dangerous Form of Ecstasy Being Sold in Canada
OTTAWA - The Health Protection Branch of Health Canada has issued a warning that a new, potentially fatal, form of Ecstasy may be being sold across
Canada. The warning follows a seizure by the RCMP in Ottawa. The RCMP indicate this drug could be available at "rave" parties in other cities.
Several forms of Ecstasy have been seen before but this version combines MDMA (known on the street as Adam) and a closely related drug MDEA
(known on the street as Eve). This combination plus the high potency of the drug, which is two to three times higher than other versions of Ecstasy, could
prove lethal.
In England, there have been several fatal incidents associated with Ecstacy use at "rave" parties. It is believed the drug found in Ottawa originated in
Amsterdam.
This round pill which was being sold for $25 can be identified by a bird on one side and a slash on the other. The identity of the drug was established by the
Ottawa Drug Analysis Laboratory in the Drugs Directorate of Health Canada.
- "Ecstasy" Damages the Brain and Impairs Memory in Humans - NIDA report
A NIDA-supported study has provided the first direct evidence that chronic use of MDMA, popularly known as "ecstasy," causes brain damage
in people. Using advanced brain imaging techniques, the study found that MDMA harms neurons that release serotonin, a brain chemical thought
to play an important role in regulating memory and other functions. In a related study, researchers found that heavy MDMA users have memory
problems that persist for at least 2 weeks after they have stopped using the drug. Both studies suggest that the extent of damage is directly
correlated with the amount of MDMA use.
- ARF tape on Ecstasy- Ecstasy is a stimulant drug that also has some hallucinogenic properties. Its chemical name is MDMA. On the street, it's known as "E,"
XTC, Adam, Euphoria, X, MDM or Love Doves.
Ecstasy can produce feelings of pleasure and euphoria. However, it can also have negative and disturbing effects.
- Man may be charged in woman's drug death - Uxbridge, Massachusetts
by David Weber - Boston Herald
Monday, February 21, 2000
Cape Cod prosecutors are still mulling whether to lodge additional charges against
the boyfriend of an Uxbridge teenager who died after ingesting a mixture of drugs
during what was planned as a romantic getaway weekend.Kelly Ann Sullivan, 18, died Friday in Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis.
Investigators were waiting for autopsy results to determine whether Sullivan died of
using controversial drugs known as GHB or GBL. - Phoenix Sun forward collapses after taking supplement - Dec. 27, 1999 - On the night he suffered a seizure that caused him to stop breathing, Phoenix Suns forward Tom
Gugliotta ingested a supplement that has been tied to the collapse of a 16-year-old Peoria boy and at least one death.
- FDA Links BD to 3 Deaths to Dietary Supplement - May 12, 1999 -
The Food and Drug Administration warned yesterday that at least three
people have died and more than 100 have become ill after taking
unregulated new products marketed as health supplements promoting such
results as bigger muscles, sounder sleep and better sex. In 1998, authorities arrested and imprisoned a California chiropractor for distributing BD at a New Year's Eve party where more than 100 guests became ill.
GHB
- HealthWatcher.net - Dietfraud.com coverage
- Lethal cocktail - The tragedy and the aftermath - A special report in
The Detroit NewsWhat has been called a designer drug has become
a nationwide curse. In Metro Detroit, it killed a high school freshman,
shocked a community and devastated friends and
family.
- Date-rape drug trial to start in Detroit suburbDeflated birthday balloons have sunk into the snow at Samantha Reid's grave. Ice clings to the purple and white teddy bears, symbols of a Sweet 16th
birthday never celebrated.
Samantha died a little more than a year ago after she was poisoned with a party
drug that continues to gain popularity nationwide.
Four young men
accused of putting GHB into Samantha's Mountain Dew soft drink at a party on
Grosse Ile last January.
It is the first prosecution in the country for a GHB death.
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GHB - The Stone Cold Truth - Why do people take it? Mainly to get high. And among other things, GHB and its analog products claim to fight stress and depression, stimulate Growth Hormone, induce deep sleep, relieve anxiety, aid in muscle-building, enhance sexual feeling, enhance athletic performance, and combat aging. Beware........What you don't know CAN KILL YOU.
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