Something heard more frequently in Powell River (and across BC) is the latest, hottest, hippest, new recreational drug: methamphetamine (speed, jib, go-fast, ice, crystal, etc.)

Something most don't know is that it isn't new at all. Back in the 1970s it was bigger than heroin or cocaine, mainly coming in from the east, from Montreal via the United States.

It has found its way into Powell River. It is being cut into the crack cocaine people are smoking, and most infuriating, it is now being slipped into the marijuana, unbeknownst to our youth.

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