Posted on 05/23/2006 10:13:53 AM PDT by Alouette
Hydro, more potent and more expensive than regular grass, is sold mostly to the affluent, but police fear rise in violence, crime if youth start using
Israel Police have waged a war on the distribution of Hydro, a more potent and more expensive type of marijuana that is sweeping the local drug market.
Dubbed by police as “death grass,” Hydro goes for about NIS 500 (USD 110) per 10 grams (0.35 ounces), compared with regular marijuana which is sold for NIS 600 (USD 133) per kilo.
The high price of Hydro is mainly due to the high cost of growing it and the high demand. It is grown in regular homes that are rented out for thousands of dollars a month; police have discovered four such ‘hothouses’ in recent months: Two in Netanya, one in Kadima and another in Moshav Yanuv.
Hydroponics is a method of growing where the plants are grown in water and are routinely flushed with nutrients; the special equipment can cost thousands of shekels.
People who have used Hydro said the drug has a hallucinatory effect.
“If in regular grass the active ingredient is 13 percent, in Hydro it is five or six times more,” senior police official Yaron Ahrak said.
“The drug is distributed mostly among the affluent, who can afford it. The drug’s effects are lethal. All we need now is that the youth will get a hold of it.”
Police fear Hydro will spark a revolution in the drug market and an increase in drug-related violence.
'Harsh measures must be taken against growers'
“The drug may cause a rise in violence among users and among its distributors. If the youth will start using Hydro we will see a rise in violence and in criminal activity, because the users will seek ways to finance their consumption,” Ahrak said.
“If someone is in a depressed state he or she may have depressing hallucinations after using the drug; this can lead to severe situations that may end in tragedy. Hydro also has more severe medical implications – from higher blood pressure to kidney damage and even impotence.”
Despite its potency, Hydro is considered a light drug, and courts tend to sentence according to the amount of drug that was seized.
“The law must be changed immediately,” Ahrak said. “Hydro cannot be dealt with as though it is regular grass. Harsh measures must be taken against growers, dealers and users.”
Attorney Revital Svid said the courts cannot differentiate between Hydro and regular grass users, because Hydro is a type of marijuana.
“Its just like you can’t differentiate between someone who stole a Mercedes and someone who stole a Volkswagen "beetle,” she said.
Jeez, what a pack of bullshit. Do journalists do journalism anymore?
"The drug’s effects are lethal: False"
Not if you consider that it causes the need for more munchies, thus lethal to your gut. LOL
Numbers must be wrong. Hydro seems to be selling for $110,000 a kilo, while regular is selling for $133 for a kilo.
What are they teaching journalists?
Miracle Grow can be dangerous in the wrong hands. LOL
This article has to be the worst one I've seen in a while. I guess it was too much trouble for this lazy ass reporter to email some Dutch breeders and get the facts.
To lie like politicians.
Fess up. This really came from Scrappleface or The Onion, right?
Right.
Everyone who smokes it will eventually die.
Just like everyone who drinks water will eventually die.
That's what they say, but the little cubes never did much for me for some reason, even in Amsterdam. Smelled good, but that's about it.
Took me a few minutes to figure out they're talking about 'killer weed'.
LOL!
From the headline, I thought they meant folks were dropping dead.
Hydro is more potent than regular grass.
Hydro does not create hallucinatory effects.
We're in agreement, this article is a absolute joke.
Nancy Reagan taught us everything we need to know about drugs except the street price. The Just Say No to Drugs campaign we were subjected to in 1980's elementary schools, with Nancy's mug all over the campaign, exposed us to more types of illegal drugs, names, doses, actual pills in resin cases, effects, where to buy it, where to steal it, etc. than any individual except the hardest of hardcore junkheads would ever know of in their lives.
Senior police official Yaron Ahrak taught us the street price.
When you expel the Gaza Israelis, and a year later 98% don't have permanent jobs or housing, but they have several decades of hydroponic and greenhouse growing experience, the entrepreneurs will fill the void to get them quick cash.
Memo to Group going to Holy Land:
Forget homicide-bombers! Worry about Israelis armed with killer marijuana!
I worry a lot about Israel and things that happen there, but I have to admit, I never once thought about the drug problem in Israel.
There are plenty of young Israelis who purposefully fail the drug tests to get out of the front line service, the brig in Israel isn't that harsh, and for some preferable to having to kill someone.. And once in the service, the Israelis don't test the lowest grunts for drugs, I walked into a backwater supply depot filled with Russians and Georgians and they were all lit up. Wen you get paid nothing and have to live in some of the barracks the Israelis have, you do whatever you can to escape.
Cheap harsh weed is cheaper than cigarettes in Israel, and since the Russians smoke those harsh Russian cigs, harsh weed is where it's at, so I was told.
You gotta be careful with hash in Amsterdam. The low quality stuff is called "soapbar" and I've read horror stories of people melting LP records and other interesting objects and mixing it in to create fake hash bars. I think the term was called a "Pakistani headache" for the effect of smoking melted records...
Fresh from the pages of the LA Times Circa 1980....
Mostly lies, and it's certainly NOT lethal...doesn't cause kidney damage and doesn't cause high blood pressure beyond being under the immediate influence.
re: you link
What a load of bull$h!t!
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