By Eric King-
Spice is being sold on paper in Chelmsford and other British prisons, The Eye Of Media.com can reveal.
The lethal drug outlawed in Britain is being sold for £50 for a small sheet of paper, which can be cut and mixed with tobacco roll ups.
The new method of smoking spice is widely unknown to the British public, but sold to inmates who are largely bored and seeking new ways of getting high. They are sent through letters and largely undetectable by security guards because they are relatively new in the drugs market. One recently released inmate told the eye of media.com that he made £1500 a week when he was in jail.
The man who insisted on anonymity said:
” they can’t get enough of it in jail. People are banged up for 23 hours a day and get very bored. Many people don’t buzz from weed anymore, so they go for spice. The first few times it really knocks them out to sleep but after that alot of them begin to get used to it. It sells like hot cakes in there, people want a different level of high”.
The new way of smoking spice is not yet widespread in the public, but has been around for almost a year, our source told us. Showing us a sample, the man from Kensal Rise, West London, said”this is the latest and highest level of high drug users can ge. It beats crack, and beats any strength of scunk out there. Only people who can handle it touch it” . Spice is one of the most dangerous drugs in the streets and has claimed many lives. It was once legal in the UK, until its very dangerous consequences was widely publicized.
Dealers of the dangerous drug apply a “spray-on spice” , which is a liquid form of a lethal psychoactive drug impossible to detect by prison guards.
“This stuff is quid spice sent to prisons everyday,” he said.
“Chelmsford is a common destination for it and it doesn’t have a strong smell.
“It has been about for a year or so and goes through like normal mail to prisons. Only inmates expecting it will know what it is, but I tell you what, it gets them well high. It doesn’t show up on drug test, it is just perfect.”
Spice has been linked to over 50 deaths of inmates in the past two years and is responsible for several cases of psychosis. A prison officer in Chelmsford told the eye of media.com ” spice causes serious mental health issues and self harm for a large percentage of those who use it, and it is forbidden in Chelmsford prison and all prisons in the UK. We do our best to prevent its entry into UK prisons, but there is only so much we can do”.
A report, published by ex-offenders’ organisation User Voice in June 2016 found a third of prisoners surveyed in nine jails had used spice in the previous month. The report concluded that the wide spread availability of the drug had contributed to an increase in violence, bullying, mental health problems, and even death. The government of former UK prime minister, David Cameron, and that of current prime Minister Theresa May, have tried in vain to clamp down on accessibility to drugs in British prisons. In short, the efforts of criminals to smuggle drugs into prison has been sustained and highly co-ordinated.
”Inmates who can’t afford spice when it is available can be sold it on tic(credit), but they will be made to pay later”, our source said. ”It is one drug that guarantees the kind of high for those whose bodies are now immune to cannabis. Some people have smoked so much cannabis that it does very little for them now”, he added.
The prospect of spice sold in paper form spreading to the streets is a frightening one. If young children and teenagers decide to try it and get hooked on it, we could be living in a society filled with several mentally ill people, but the more worrying part of it is that we may not always be able to distinguish them from normal people who are just misbehaving.
Young people should be encouraged and inspired to develop their talents through reading and productive theorizing, instead of joining the depreciating culture of drugs promoted by those who have low future prospects and refuse to develop them. Parents and schools have a huge responsibility to educate children and warn them of the terrifying dangerous world they live in.