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Earlier articles say that the pills are diazepam. Which would cause a lot of the described effects itself. Perhaps the people stealing material from catalytic
by maxerickson 5y ago
Earlier articles say that the pills are diazepam. Which would cause a lot of the described effects itself.
Perhaps the people stealing material from catalytic converters want a scapegoat? The brown powder could be whatever.
(Specifically, the video at https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/car-exhaust-drug-craze-alarms-congos-capital-2021-09-27/ https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/car-exhaust-drug-craze-... mentions it)
- whimsicalism 5y agoYeah, the article doesn't read really coherently to me, there are bits and pieces that don't fit into the whole, and I'm somewhat skeptical of the narrative they've constructed about discovering some new psychoactive effects of catalytic converters that have now become some part of a global catalytic converter underground drug trade.
- qwertox 5y ago"Congo's car exhaust drug craze causes alarm" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-fvLTO4u8o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-fvLTO4u8o