Drug smuggling takes off with flights

[Adsos Letter]

Source: Reuters

TAIPEI (Reuters) - About 30 kg (66lb) of smuggled party drug ketamine arrived on one of the first direct cargo flights between political rivals China and Taiwan following six decades of hostile relations, a Customs official said Friday.

Airport Customs agents in Taipei found the popular powdered hallucinatory drug Thursday packed into eight boxes on a Chinese cargo plane, customs officials said.

Taiwan and China opened direct cargo routes and launched daily direct passenger flights Monday for the first time since 1949 to help Taiwan investors save time and money on travel and factory shipments.

A 31-year-old Chinese woman was arrested in connection with the ketamine, which was destined for a convenience store in central Taiwan, local media said.



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Sounds like the drugs were heading from China to Taiwan. Interesting....

[acmavm]

1. Geeze, I am OUT OF IT. I never heard of ketamine before this.

[KamaAina]

2. Its street name is "Special K".

Not that popular over here anymore (I don't think :-) )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine#Psychological_effects

Ketamine produces effects similar to PCP and DXM. Like other dissociative anesthetics in low- to upper-middle dosages, its hallucinogenic effects are only seen against a background lacking sensory stimulation, such as darkness. Unlike the other well known dissociatives PCP and DXM, ketamine is very short acting, its hallucinatory effects lasting fifteen minutes when insufflated or injected and, up to an hour when ingested, the total experience lasting no more than a couple of hours.

Enjoy! :P

[acmavm]

3. Thanks. I gotta study up on illegal substances.