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[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 111 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So apparently the "candies" were literally just solid meth tablets.

I have a feeling some smuggler is getting their limbs chopped off right about now for losing their load.

[–] JoShmoe@ani.social 23 points 11 months ago

They panini’ed his balls

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hate it when I lose my load

[–] Senseless@feddit.org 9 points 11 months ago

I love it when I lose my load Ü

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 70 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This headline.. its almost as if its implying that its only a problem because they used a "potentially lethal" amount. Like if they had just a more reasonable amount, it wouldn't be an issue.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Food & drugs bank, sounds cool

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 48 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Hypothetically speaking, how might one be able to get their hands on this candy?

I need it for my... ADHD

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

street value of USD 608 per candy

Good luck getting the real thing. I could buy some normal candy and a roll of food-safe paper, and sell it for hundreds of dollars. Or add cyanide too, just to ensure the customer won't complain when it doesn't get them high.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

That's a big damn piece of candy

[–] deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

Street price in NZ would be a lot higher than elsewhere. Same goes for Australia

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] Icalasari@fedia.io 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Although the ADHD joke is spot on - ADHD gets treated with amphetamines, and straight up meth is used for the most severe cases (I myself am on dextroamphetamine for my ADHD)

[–] deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

methamphetamine is neurotoxic and not used medically, except the levo isomer in some cough/congestion formulas

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Desoxyn would like a word.

Edit to add: more commonly prescribed amphetamines are neurotoxic, too. Whether they are neurotoxic at clinical doses is still debated.

[–] deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

a-pvp would like to know your location

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Aptly named.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago

Meth is alright. I don’t like it as much as adderall.

Fent is the worst drug.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Piggybacking on this. Asking for a friend...

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Goddammit you just “proved” all of the pearl clutching Halloween-terrified parents right who obsessively dug through their kids’ candy after trick or treating because they just knew that everyone was giving out drugs and needles. Now they will feel even more justified in their stupid quest.

Was that just my mom?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It wasn't just your mom, and they knew that shit was fake when they did it. They were using it as an excuse to take your best candy for themselves.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

She actually never took any candy, it just wasn’t her thing. She’s always been a very scared and paranoid person who honestly believed any moral panic/hoax that she either saw on TV, heard from a friend, or got in a 2000’s style chain email forward.

My entire childhood was a constant stream of “no you can’t do that because it’s dangerous because I heard that….” that people were hiding in the parking lot of Wal-Marts all across the country with a bottle of “perfume” that they would jump out and spray you with. But really it was some chemical that would make you pass out, so then they could kidnap you and rape you.

I am not making that up and she was still saying it around 10 years ago, when I was like yeah we need to maybe not talk/visit as much.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

creative way to eliminate hunger

[–] rimu@piefed.social 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Decades of failed government response have left us in a situation where meth is so prevalent they're giving it away.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 11 months ago

NZ isn't all alps, forests, lakes and cows, that's for sure

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

I need to get to NZ, their candies are lit!

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

Good LORD I wish I was in New Zealand right now