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UK: It's attempted murder
Lucy Clapham Bucks Free Press
Saturday 17 Feb 2007 DRUG dealers who are bulking-up cannabis with glass should be charged for attempted murder, an ex-addict has claimed. Keith, from High Wycombe, believes mixing drugs like cannabis with glass is so dangerous it could kill people and thinks the dealers who are doing it should be punished more severely. He said: "If it's laced with glass or anything specifically harmful to anyone they should be charged with attempted murder, you know it's going to kill them." advertisement Keith, who used to have a £150 a day heroin habit, said the people worst affected are those that use large needles to inject their drugs, which are big enough to allow harmful particles to filter through. I know brick dust has been used before," he said. "Normally they cut it with Johnsons baby powder or vitamin C. To me, if people are cutting it with anything else, that's dangerous. That's just going out to hurt somebody. You're not doing it to gain, you're doing it to deliberately hurt someone." Police announced this week that rat poison has also been found mixed with some drugs to make them heavier before they are sold on. Detective Inspector Steve Williams, the county's top officer in the fight against drugs, said: "Drug dealers use all kinds of substances to bulk up their merchandise and make more money. I have seen lab reports for cocaine come back listing chalk and powdered pain-killers as ingredients." Sergeant Gordon Reilly, from High Wycombe police, said officers had seen strychnine (rat poison) in blocks of cannabis resin, which gives users an extra buzz, but warned the wrong combination could be fatal. Brian O'Conner, chief executive for the Addiction Counselling Trust (ACT) based in Gordon Road, backed the warning. He said: "We from the ACT perspective would say to people you take a risk when you use any type of drug because you don't know what the strength is and you don't know what it's been cut with to bring it to the strength that's normally provided on the street." He added that the Department of Health had warned herbal cannabis was being mixed with microscopic glass beads, leaving users with a sore mouth and chesty coughs. http://www.thisisbucks.co.uk/display.var.1198409.0.its_attempted_murder.php
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