Posted on 06/02/2011 3:06:56 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
It looks like crack, but it is much cheaper, four times more lethal and called “oxi” or “oxidado” (rust). It’s a cocaine derivative, just like crack, but it contains kerosene or gasoline, acetone, battery fluid and other chemicals. The highly addictive drug is smoked, but there are also cases of oxi being grounded up in cigarettes or snorted as powder, and has been showing up in Brazil in alarming rates.
Oxi is known as ‘the drug of death’ because it’s extremely harmful to the body and addictive right after the first try. “You use oxi once, and you want to use it two, five, ten, twenty times,” a 25-year-old oxi-addict told Brazilian TV.
Users take on a yellowish skin color, lose weight very quickly and develop liver problems. They start to look like emaciated living corpses in just a few weeks time. The drug causes stomach aches, vomiting and constant diarrhea, but perhaps the most alarming fact is that most users die within a year.
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Looks like this will be a self-limiting phenomenon.
I wonder if they’d mind if we handed this out to our democrats and RINOS?
“Users take on a yellowish skin color, lose weight very quickly and develop liver problems.”
Sounds like they develop jaundice. And kills their livers.
Gene pool will be getting a little cleaner.
Reefer Madness gone wild. Funny how a scary drug story is met with so much credulity here.
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