ACT legalised pseudoephedrine and meth use spikes while cops are still scratching their heads?
Gangs making large profits amid ‘bizarre’ increase in meth use
The police believe gangs are now making twice as much money from dealing methamphetamine as they were a year ago amid what they’re calling a “bizarre” increase in use of the illicit drug.
Recently released data from Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR)’s wastewater testing programme revealed New Zealand’s meth consumption rose from 732kg in 2023 to 1434kg in 2024.
ESR’s senior scientist Andrew Chappell told 1News there was a large spike in the amount of meth being consumed in July and August last year – and the level has remained high ever since.
New Zealand went from consuming between 15 and 20kg of methamphetamine a week to between 30 to 40kgs.
NZ Police have no idea why there was a jump in Meth use in June and August of last year and why it has remained so high.
R-i-g-h-t.
And what happened in June of last year…
Pseudoephedrine back on shelves
Associate Health Minister David Seymour is pleased that Pseudoephedrine can now be purchased by the general public to protect them from winter illness, after the coalition government worked swiftly to change the law and oversaw a fast approval process by Medsafe.
…and which Blogger pointed out that ACTs policy would see a jump in local domestic gangs who don’t have the international contacts to start making meth from Pseudoephedrine…
So ACT’s pseudoephedrine policy will help domestic meth cooks after all
…oh, me, that was me.
The blogger was me.
Remember what the officials said?
Officials back planned return of pseudoephedrine sales but suggest meth production increase
Officials have advised Associate Health Minister David Seymour, who leads the Misuse of Drugs (Pseudoephedrine) Amendment Bill, that the move comes with risks including a potential increase in domestic meth production, a higher likelihood pharmacies would be ram-raided and the potential for improper use.
And yet the NZ Police have no fucking idea why meth use spiked the month after this policy came into effect?
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On hopelessness, hope and drugs etc , a meditation. Serious reading for our times for seriously concerned people.
It’s often said, “hope dies last.” And it’s generally believed that if you lose hope, you lose everything, even the will to live.
But that’s only true if hope is the last true thing to perish in a person before they quit on life. The end of hope is then synonymous with hopelessness, and identical with despair. However, ending hope is a completely different thing than hopelessness.
I essentially lost my 20’s to undiagnosed depression. The black hole cycles of hopelessness and despair only ended through diligent meditation, daily journaling and running track.
Though a psychiatrist said, “You need to be on meds man,” I didn’t want to go on anti-depressants unless I had to…
Even at 30, I saw they were powerful brain-altering drugs that were over-prescribed. (I’m not against psychotropics as a temporary last resort, but they should be treated on par with the new low-level electro-shock treatments, instead of being prescribed like aspirin.) Martin LeFevre
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2503/S00057/hope-is-the-prison-of-time.htm
Use is up all right, people I know in the Far North community stop answering messages and disappear (often to Ngawha prison), relationships founder, erratic driving is prevalent, and people end up living in not their usual place. Meth.
I don’t hang out with party animals these days, but even straight looking people and Tradies are into it with often economic consequences more than anything.
Bomber is right about the Govt./cops not having much of a clue.
This is Seymours freedom moment…freedom to use more meth and he is solely responsible for this.
So all the right wingers who haunt this Blog site who claimed that this wouldn’t happen because (insert stupid assertation here) were wrong? Huh, who would’ve thought that believing libertarian talking points is proof of delusional thinking?
I assume they can differentiate between pseudoephedrine in waste water from illicit drug use versus taking medication from a pharmacy? Can some also clarify how the police can monitor gang income so easily? Do they file tax returns?
You can’t have the tax payer buy and annually fund private prisons if there isn’t enough crime, eh?
Misuse of drugs (crime pedlar) ammendment bill.