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Article: BZP pill stocks selling on street
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- The Nelson Mail
- Article date:
- April 24, 2008
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Party pills containing the class C drug BZP are being sold on the
streets by people who stocked up before the substance was outlawed,
say police and a pill manufacturer in Nelson.
Nelson manufacturer Dale Johnsen, whose Party Schnaks brand is
sold in shops nationwide, said that despite BZP being banned from
shelves three weeks ago, people were still buying it.
"There is still a lot of BZP being sold on the streets."
Banning the substance had made it more valuable, he said.
"It's doubled the value straight away. It could become another
street drug."
Mr Johnsen, who used to buy BZP from China, said he now made "100
percent legal" pills using ingredients he imported from the United
States.