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French drugs haul 'was strawberry Haribo'

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Looking at the branding on the bag, surely it's just this: https://www.lfatabletpresses.com/ready-mix-firmapress in pink?

Is this somehow used in the manufacture of ecstasy (based on the presence of a pill press)?

Probably someone doing a 51st-state kind of scam.

This is almost certainly the "if it's around drugs it is drugs" method of counting; e.g., if you've got 1 gram of $DRUG in a 1 kilogram box, you're prosecuted for 1 kilogram of $DRUG.

The simplest explanation is that someone wanted to make fake pills from crushed sweets.

Or they were melting down small candies to make one large one, a la Barry Lewis on YouTube.

Or maybe they were going to use it as filler? Most prescription drugs are mostly filler too, and just micrograms of active substances in many cases. But if you make a tablet of just the active stuff it's too small to handle.

I don't know much about extacy but I assume it's similar?

The result is the same, but most drugs (prescription and otherwise) are more in the milligram range. For ecstacy/MDMA an effective dose is usually on the order of 100mg.

Could be to manufacture pills for sale at festivals. By the time subject realises pill was fake sellers are long gone. And usually it's hard to find them at festival site anyway.

The power of mind. Thinking you are getting drug is as powerful as the drug itself!

Completely unrelated, but there is a museum in the main Haribo factory (near Orange) and it is surprisingly fun to visit, even for someone who does not like sweets.

Either someone was making fake ecstasy tablets to sell to defraud buyers, or they were practicing before making real drugs. Either way, they are very lucky. If this were in the US this might just be changed to a conspiracy charge.

Or the police were set up. Or someone is messing with them. Or any number of things. Good luck with a conspiracy charge - conspiracy to manufacture candies?

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