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Topic: NOT Smurf Vitamins!!
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Smurfy1For2
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posted 06-29-2009 06:25 AM
These are definitely not Smurf vitamins!!
Not Smurf Vitamins
Drugs shaped like Smurfs, Transformers and President Barack Obama’s head recently showed up on Kansas City area streets, adding to a trend that worries police and health experts.
Colorful Ecstasy pills started showing up last year shaped as Homer and Bart Simpson, Ninja Turtles and other characters. As more of the pills that look like vitamins or candy go out locally and nationwide, they put children at great risk, police and experts said.
"Someone leaves this around … kids pick them up and boom," said H. Westley Clark, director of the federal Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.
The cartoon character marketing is a ploy by predators to promote a dangerous drug as light fun in order to sell to more teens and young adults, Clark said. The irresponsible marketers also use false advertising, police said, because the tablets often contain no Ecstasy at all but instead a powerful mix of other drugs.
For more than a year, about half the so-called Ecstasy pills tested at labs in Kansas City and Johnson County have turned out not to be Ecstasy. They were a combination of other drugs once used to treat stomach parasites (piperazine) that have effects and dangers similar to Ecstasy. It takes a combination of two variations of piperazine to get the Ecstasy effects. This combination surfaced in New Zealand in the 1990s as “legalX,” but many countries have since criminalized BZP, one of the variations.
In the United States, BZP is illegal under federal law and Missouri law, but it is legal in Kansas.
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Squeaky Smurf
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posted 06-29-2009 11:53 AM
My goodness, such a danger! Mainly because children are easily exposed to it! And on seeing the pic I realize those drug dealers really get to pass the pills off as candies. Thanks for the alert, Smurfy1For2!! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Posts: 1017 | From: Rio de Janeiro | Registered: Jul 2008
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sammylurvesyou
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posted 06-29-2009 01:20 PM
OMG little kids would think they were candies
thats awful I'll warn my little sisters
Okiie
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Posts: 359 | From: windsor ontario canada | Registered: Dec 2008
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De-Evolution Smurf
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posted 06-29-2009 02:39 PM
Gasp! That is such an alarm!!! Please tell all little kids that they are not for them!!
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Season sets must come back.... why does Warner Bros. go so slow?
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Sassette
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posted 06-29-2009 03:42 PM
The Smurf drugs really do look like candy! They used to sell real Smurf Vitamins back in the 1980s...
Chewable Smurf Vitamins
They had many different flavors (Smurf, Smurfette, Brainy and Papa) - even Gargamel and Azrael flavors too!!
The Smurf Drugs look the same as the blue Smurf Vitamins to me!!! How on earth would a kid know any better?
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I love playing Smurf Games!!!
Posts: 835 | From: Smurfingland | Registered: Jul 1999
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Squeaky Smurf
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posted 06-29-2009 03:52 PM
I suppose Gargamel and Azrael vitamins also are tasty! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) Thanks for the nice ad, Sassette! ![[Sassette Smurfling]](graemlins/Sassette.gif)
Posts: 1017 | From: Rio de Janeiro | Registered: Jul 2008
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