"Cheap amphetamines, known in Thailand as "yaa baa" (crazy drug),
have flooded Thai towns and cities and led to a rapid rise in
addiction, crime and violence, especially among young people."
aus einem Drogen-Bericht vom Juni99 über 'Thai Amphetamine' und OpiumProduktion.

4.8.97/BANGKOK POST
SUBIN KHERNKAEW
MAE SAI, CHIANG RAI

2 MILLION SPEED PILLS SEIZED IN SIX MONTHS

Police here are fighting a no-win war in their desperate attempt to stem the influx of amphetamine from Burma.

In the past six months, two million amphetamine tablets were confiscated in this northern province alone according to Pol Col Panurat Meepien, the provincial police superintendent.

But the seized drug accounted for just a fraction of the actual amount of the speed pills which were smuggled into the country, particularly through the Mae Sai-Tachilek border.
entnommen: siehe oben.

Thailand still does not seem to understand it has to clean up its act:
A junior army officer has implicated a major-general and three politicians as key players in one of the country's biggest amphetamine rackets. "

BANGKOK, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Europe is the new target destination for amphetamines produced in the notorious Golden Triangle straddling the borders of Myanmar, Thailand and Laos, a Thai newspaper said on Saturday.

und hier die wirklichen Infos
'Mad Drug' Menace Spreads in Thailand


By Prangtip Daorueng

BANGKOK, Jun 19 (IPS) - Truck drivers discovered it first, and soon
even gas stations were offering it along with fuel. But now even Thai
teenagers are taking what has become known as the ''mad drug'' and the
country's authorities have found themselves facing yet another front
in the battle against drug abuse.

Also known as ''horse drug'' among Thais, amphetamines have been
popular for several years now among truck drivers and other employees
facing long hours of work.

''It keeps us awake at night and it is very easy to find,'' says
Bangkok taxi driver Somepong Noilaead, who used to drive a truck.
''Usually we buy it at the gas station.''

Aside from keeping the user from falling asleep, amphetamines can also
distort one's mind. Somepong himself confesses: ''Everybody knows the
drug can drive you crazy too if you don't know how to take it.''

But the drug's promise of an energy burst attracted even teenagers in
high school and college who believed taking amphetamines could keep
them awake through nightlong cramming sessions. Its ready availability
made it all the more popular among the country's youth who now
consider taking it as being in fashion as well.

Frustrated authorities began taking tough measures against amphetamine
dealer gangs last year. Extra-judicial killings of suspected dealers
of the drug are even believed to have taken place during the
administration of Gen Chavalit Yongchaiyudh.

But there is no sign that the menace has been licked. Indeed,
indications are that demand for the stimulant has increased sharply,
and suppliers are doing brisk business despite the stepped-up drive
against the amphetamine cartels.

''It is very difficult to make students stay far from drugs because
many of them already live in the community surrounded by drug users,''
says one schoolteacher in a slum area here.

''Although schools try their best to prevent the problem, we have
found some students using it anyway,'' she adds. ''Now what is being
used most is amphetamine because it is cheaper than other kinds of
drugs and easier to get.''

Thai officials estimate that as many as one million Thais may be
addicted to amphetamines, although independent observers say the
number could be higher.

The first local clandestine amphetamine laboratory was found in a
Bangkok suburb in 1986. Prior to that, Thailand's amphetamine supply
was believed to be from sources outside South-east Asia. Today, the
production base is said to be in neighbouring countries, while the
ever-growing market remains in Thailand.

Unlike heroin, amphetamines are easy to produce and sell, said a Thai
trader near the Burmese border. Mobile labs are easy to set up in
jungles and remote areas. ''Raw materials and pressing machines -
that's all you need,'' he said.

According to Dr Vichai Poshyachinda, a drug expert and member of
Thailand's Narcotic Control Board, the shift of production base from
Thailand to Indochinese countries and Burma was the result of tougher
Thai controls on the production and sale of substances such as
ephedrine.

And while Thailand and its five Mekong neighboring countries this
month pledged to a united fight against drug abuse during the special
session on drugs of the United Nations General Assembly in New York,
mainland South-east Asian authorities may already be far behind the
drug cartels in terms of accomplishment.

Vichai says with Thai drug dealers now allied with their Lao and
Burmese counterparts to produce the illicit stimulants in nearby
countries, Thailand itself will have more difficulties stopping the
abuse of amphetamines and other such drugs. Worse, he says, Thailand
itself may someday become an amphetamine supplier to other markets.

''It becomes as clear as jigsaw pieces falling into place that Thai
drug cartels are on their way to becoming major suppliers of
amphetamine in the international market,'' says Vichai.

He cites a recent Lao recent anti-drug report that says most of the
amphetamine production cases there involved imports of the substance
for the purpose of re-export, either to avoid import tax in the target
countries or to divert the substances for illegal purpose.

According to the report, which was submitted to an international
seminar on drug-abuse problems held here recently, a raid on a drug
laboratory in the Laotian northwest led to the arrest of 25 suspects,
including seven Thais and 10 Burmese.

Many of the ingredients used in the manufacture of the drugs there
were apparently also imported from nearby nations.

Another report made by the Burmese government noted that although
stimulant and hallucinogen abuse were not popular in Burma, there has
been a disturbing number of arrests made in recent years in connection
with the production and trafficking of amphetamine.

In 1990, for example, Burmese authorities made arrests in 13 cases of
amphetamine production and trafficking, seizing 5.9 million tablets.
Last year, there were nine recorded similar cases, with a seizure of
more than 1.1 million tablets.

Vichai says it is also known that ephedrine is being sent from China
to Thailand through Burma's Shan state. He points out that the Golden
Triangle where Thai, Burmese and Lao borders meet and which is
notorious as a major production area of opium has now expanded its
output to include large supplies of methamphetamine.

''It is clear that the abuse of stimulants is fostered simultaneously
by intra-and extra-regional supplies,'' says Vichai. He adds that
while the manufacture of illegal drugs in the Asian countries is
evidently confined to methamphetamine, abuse of illegal stimulants
includes the Ecstasy group of amphetamine derivatives and cocaine.

''Mad drug is attacking everyone in our soceity, but no one is
prepared to face the problem seriously,'' said a Thai businessman
whose son was a former drug addict. (END/IPS/AP/PD/AZ/CB/RAL/98)

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Ja genau solche Infos dazu hab ich auch noch gesucht.
Zudem wollte ich mit meiner Frage auch wissen wie bekannt es in anderen Regionen schon ist, denn hier bei uns ist es schon relativ verbreitet.

Also vom Geschmack her koenntest du mit deinen Inhaltsstoffen schon recht haben, smeckt scheisse und föhnt wie ephedrin!

Verfügt nun echt niemand ausser mir über praktische Erfahrungen damit?

...seit einiger Zeit gibt's ja bei uns an den Tankstellen das RedBull-Konzentrat. 30% weniger Wasser und 40% höherer Preis. Dafür aber umweltschonend in Glasflaschen.