UK: Drugs are flooding in for the Millennium

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Thursday 23 December 1999

Drugs are flooding in for the Millennium, warn police By John Steele

The National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) issued a warning that the gangs behind the multi-million-pound trade in chemical drugs were attempting to flood the British market over Christmas and the Millennium. They also warned that young and impressionable people swept up by the "hype" over Millennium celebrations might be tempted to try chemical drugs for the first time, with the risk of potentially devastating side-effects.

A number of deaths of young people have been linked to ecstasy and other drugs. Police believe that the principal targets of the gangs are all-night dance events and street parties - due to take place all over Britain.

NCIS, which monitors the trade in illicit synthetic drugs, said there was evidence that gangs were importing more narcotics and had stepped up production from home-based drug "laboratories". Customs officers have seized 886 kilos of ecstasy this year - compared to 250 last year. Since October, 325 kilos have been removed from the streets.

Most of the imported drugs are from Holland - a long-standing source of chemical narcotics - and some ecstasy pills recovered were stamped with an M for Millennium or 2000 logo. Nick Wilson, head of the organisation's drugs section, said: "The festive season has created an unprecedented demand for dangerous drugs, a demand that organised crime is only too happy to meet."

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), December 23, 1999

Answers

I wonder if its only Drugs????

-- Squid (ItsDark@down.here), December 23, 1999.

The grapevine has it that you can buy full automatic weapons (UZI, AK47, etc.) at any parking garage in London, England.

-- guys talk (you@hear.things), December 23, 1999.

What kind of grapevine is that? Anyway, the problem in the UK is getting the ammo, not the guns themselves.

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), December 23, 1999.

If everyone around the world were to take ecstasy at precisely the same time, the resultant brain wave activity burst would fry every power line from here to Timbuktu. Drugs will be blamed for power outages. You heard it here first.

211 hours...

-- counting down (the@hours.now), December 23, 1999.


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