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Article: ECSTASY USE ON THE RISE IN STATE HALLUCINOGENIC DRUG CAN CAUSE BRAINDAMAGE.(Local/Wisconsin)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- August 28, 2000
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Authorities are preparing for an appearance of the hallucinogenic drug Ecstasy expected to rival that seen in larger metropolitan areas in recent years.
Local investigators seized five tablets of the drug in the Milwaukee area in 1999. So far this year they've captured 1,418 tablets.
``We're very concerned, and we think we are getting only a fraction of what is out there,'' Milwaukee County District Attorney E. Michael McCann said.
Authorities at first believed the Ecstasy found in Milwaukee was brought into the state, but a probe into 40,000 tablets seized in New York implicated manufacturers in Wisconsin, said Michael Troster of the U.S. ...