The latest craze sweeping the nation down under is a new sythetic drug called 'White Bull'. Makers of the drug are calling it legal cocaine and say they can't keep up with the demand. Adult video stores across Australia have been selling out and they say the customers claim it's as good as the real thing and they want more. 'White Bull' is part of a larger company that makes a distrubutes a variety of 'legal drugs', the company reports a $2 million profit each year.
A clerk at the local adult video store said that customers aren't complaining,
"'The feeling is that of cocaine, speed, ecstasy,'' he said. Meaning it keeps you awake, a bit horny and somehow sets a disco beat rocking in your head. It also makes your heart beat faster, and put on a hot glow that suggests one's thermo-regulation system is out of whack. But it doesn't make you grind your teeth."
A spokeswoman for the Eros Foundation, a company in charge of regulating the legal high industry, says that she was unfamiliar with 'White Bull' and didn't know that it had become the next big thing down in Australia. Fiona Patten says that the legal high industry as a whole each year is worth about $500 million and they aren't looking to make drugs illegal, just place regulations on them. She would rather see the drug sold at local porn shops rather than gas stations across Australia. Paul Dillon, director of Drug & Alcohol Research & Training for Australia says that they see new fake drugs pop up on the market each week and will most likely disappear before you know it,
"It's probably the latest version in the new range of synthetics and won't be around next week. What you are going to see is this will get a bit of media attention and it will disappear. Something new will come on the shelves next week."
So you if you want to get your hands on a bunch of fake blow I suggest you buy a plane ticket and bring some extra luggage. It'll be interesting to see if this stuff hits the shelves here in the States.
The Age has the full story
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