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May 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Criminals using more inventive shipping methods and unregulated drug derivatives are pushing Australia’s illegal drug trade to new heights.
The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) counted 69,595 drug seizures in 2010/11, an increase of 43 per cent from 10 years before.
The number of busts is unprecedented during the decade of monitoring, but the amounts seized have been in decline, falling more than 30 per cent in the 10-year period.
ACC chief executive John Lawler says this could point to greater use of the postal system by smugglers.
“What criminals will look to do is to minimise risk,” Mr Lawyer told reporters at the launch in Sydney of the ACC’s Illicit Drug Data Report 2010-11.
“And if they can have small amounts with frequency, the chances are that some of these packages will get through.”
Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said criminal intelligence amassed by authorities was responsible for 96 per cent of drug seizures at the border.
“In the last 12 months we’ve seen criminals try to put heroin into herbal hair dye, we’ve seen cocaine in engine oil, and we’ve seen ecstasy in cleaning products,” Mr Clare said.
Authorities also intercepted 25kg of heroin encased in large bolts, 168kg packaged inside a shipment of wooden doors, and 400kg seized from a yacht at Brisbane and another off Queensland.
Employing chemists to get around Australian regulations by varying the composition of prohibited synthetic drugs is another ruse of drug suppliers.
Michael Collins, head of the National Measurement Institute Forensic Laboratory, said a drop in ecstasy imports in the preceding two years had coincided with a surge in the variant known as meow meow.
“People can simply go on the internet and order up a synthesis of a molecule that is slightly different to (illegal) molecules,” Dr Collins said at the launch.
He said a decrease in the purity of cocaine seized at the border over the past five years had coincided with an increase of the additive levamisole, an anti-worming agent.
“It gives the user a bigger high,” Dr Collins said.
Cannabis remains the top drug in terms of border seizures and weight – at 72 per cent and 58 per cent, respectively.
Mr Lawler said drug users should think about the 50,000 people murdered in Mexico’s drug wars in the past five years.
“We should see the clear link between illicit drug supply and use in Australia and the fear and torture and murder in other countries by drug cartels who seek to profit from their crime,” he said.
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