drugs

ilookchina.net — An interesting Q&A between (HHReporter) Tom Carter and Chris Thrall, the author of Eating Smoke, a memoir of his time as a meth-addicted employee of the 14K in Hong Kong's shady Wanchai district.

www.bernama.com — SEOUL, March 10 (Bernama) -- Police has arrested a Chinese chemistry professor on charges of mass-producing narcotics at his lab and attempting to sell them online, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday, citing officials as saying here.

blogs.telegraph.co.uk — One of the more touching messages I receive in the run-up to the outrageous execution of Akmal Shaikh in China this morning is from a London-based “working girl”, who tells me she is boycotting all Chinese clients for a year in protest. Please, spare me any sanctimonious injunctions about her chosen way of life. She’s doing what she can.

shanghaiscrap.com — Can't make this up. After the conviction of 5 prostitutes for drugging clients with sedatives in homemade chocolates, there have been more cases reported, so much so the "Shanghai Consulate’s News for Americans" newsletter carries a warning to readers. Who'd have thought such an occurrence was so common place? You have been warned!

thedarkside.hk — Ketamine use by teenagers in HK is on the rise. We got our hands on a shocking vid in which a girl enters a Ketamine snorting competition. She wins, but passes out and dies at the hospital the same evening.