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[smokinbilly]

Yaba from my understanding is more like speed. Methamphetamine is speed where I come from.
It can seriously f...k u up too makin u paranoid and turning you into a nervous wreck.
Any farang even thinking of trying it should slap himself in the face and go sit in the naughty room for 2 hours . Everything in Thailand is intensified so the effects would possibly be worse than if you took it at home. Plus who needs drugs in a place like this ! Yu must be mental if you think you do, just go to Nana Plaza, if you dont get high after 20 mins you're either asleep or dead already.
I know it's the Thais who take it but I thought I'd just throw the thought out anyway.

[winklergirl]

what if the person is looking for a ladyboy so that warning should be...

beware of ladies??? LOL

[sublimefolly]

If only out of scientific curiousity, could I seek some clarification on which drugs we're talking about...

I've come across 'Ice' (thats what a friend called it). Costing about 1000 baht. And sure enough - it looked like a crystal. Crystal meth! Which she smoked using tin foil and a cig lighter (chasing the dragon I think its called).

But, more commonly, LB friends smoke (using foil; but often also through water using a bong) cig heated tablets. Often they come in sets of four - costing about 2000 baht. Are these also crystal meth? Or something else?

[mindyourmind]

But, more commonly, LB friends smoke (using foil; but often also through water using a bong) cig heated tablets. Often they come in sets of four - costing about 2000 baht. Are these also crystal meth? Or something else?

The tablets are yabba.

Stay away from that stuff.

[Legend]

i usually but tablets in samui or phucket called MOXINAX, little pink tablets that knock you out on the plane journey home.
i was also told the ladyboys working at crocodile are fond of taking them instead of drinking.
whilst in pattaya, i couldnt buy them anywhere.
all the pharmacists seem to look at me in a strange way, despite me showing them the few tablets i had in the wrapper.
is this the same drug thats referred to as XANAX.?
would make sense if it is.
going to be a long flight if i cant get any kip.!

[rxpharm]

Yes, you are right, Moxinax is a generic form of Xanax. Alprazolam is the generic common drug name. This is a benzodiazepam. It will cause you to sleep, but unfortunately it deprives the user of REM sleep. REM is the phase of sleep that allows the brain to recharge and refresh yourself.

It is not recommended to be used for long periods of time.

The reason why the pharmacists were looking at you strange is that alprazolam is a control drug - so usually can only be obtained by prescription from a hospital, or a pharmacy that has a permit to dispense control drugs.

[Legend]

thanks for the reply, im well impressed.!
looks like a long flight then, unless i visit samui again.
there was a lot of goods for Sale on the islands that cannot be bought on the mainland, so thought the drug was one of them.

[mhk7840]

Do not be afraid to go to the hospital. Last time I was in Thailand I tryed to buy vicodone at a few pharmacys, I was told the same thing at all of them, Go to hospital. After a few days I got the nerve to go to a really nice hospital, I think called Burmagrand or something on Sukhumvit soi-1 in BKK. The hospital was really beautiful, the doctor was really professional, and he gave me a precription for vicodone, morphine, valume, and viagra, wich I was able to pick up there in the hospital. The hospitals in Thailand are inexpensive and will give you whatever perscription drugs you want , and totaly legal. Some of them will even take your medical insurance, or , Keep the recept and you might be able to get reimbursed from your med insurance.