Conference oass::babynames

254.0. "Drug Warning" by NCMWVX::WARRENS (Teen time - NOT Tots!) Fri Jul 01 1988 12:38

The following is brought to you as a public service. If you have any
information distribution methods and channels, please use them to distribute
this message. For non-USA readers, I suspect that anything in the states
either came from another country or will be exported to another country.
This forewarning may help stem the tide. (No, this is not a 'hit on
    foreigners', it is an 'eyes open statement on the reality of global
    interdependencies'.)

While I don't want BABYNAMES to get bogged down by this sort of thing, stickers
and what not are soooo attractive to kids, I thought it important. The
remainder of this note can be used to comment or expand on this. Perhaps
if anyone was come across this, we could get some profiling together and
feed it back to corporate security..
    
    PASS IT ON!

Randy Warrens
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                   I N T E R O F F I C E   M E M O R A N D U M

                                        Date:      1-Jul-1988 09:02am CDT
                                        From:      DAVE BULLEN @MPO 
                                                   BULLEN.DAVE 
                                        Dept:      NCD I.S. Manager
                                        Tel No:    DTN 442-2035

TO: See Below

Subject: Potential problem for all

The message below is an excerpt from a message received from corporate 
security, this could effect your family, friends or neighbors.  Please feel 
free to pass this on to anyone outside of Digital.

regards,

Dave Bullen
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


         The following was brought to the attention of this office (the 
    Cumberland County Sheriff's Dept. - 5/26/88).  Please alert your 
    community leaders, school officials,law enforcement agencies, churches 
    and anyone else you feel will help spread the word.
    
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    
         A form of tatoo called "BLUE STAR" is being sold to school 
    children.  It is a small sheet of white paper containing blue stars the 
    size of a pencil eraser. Each star is soaked wih LSD.
    
         Each star can be removed and placed in the mouth. THE LSD CAN ALSO
    BE ABSORBED THROUGH THE SKIN SIMPLY BY HANDLING THE PAPER.
    
         There is also brightly colored paper tabs resembling postage 
    stamps that have pictures of Superman, butterflies, clowns, Mickey 
    Mouse, and other Disney characters on them. These stamps are packed in 
    a red cardboard box wrapped in foil. This is a new way of selling ACID 
    by appealing to young children.
    
         A young child could happen upon these and have a fatal "trip". It
    also learned that little children could be given a free "tatoo" by 
    other children who want to have some fun or by others cultivating new 
    customers.
    
         A red stamp called "RED PYRAMID" is also being distributed along
    with "MICRO DOT" in various colors and another kind called "WINDOW 
    PANE" which has a grid that can be cut out.
    
         THESE ARE ALL LACED WITH DRUGS.....Please advise your community
    and children about these drugs. If you or your child see any of the
    above DO NOT HANDLE!!! THESE DRUGS ARE KNOWN TO REACT VERY QUICKLY
    and some are laced with strychnine.
    
         Symptoms are: hallucinatons, severe vomiting, uncontrolled
    laughter, mood change and change in body temperature. Get to the 
    hospital as soon as possible and call the police.
    
         To help stop drugs, we must be informed and know the symptons
    and signs. A wise man once said you must know the three "L's" LOOK,
    LISTEN AND LEARN....
    
         Please feel free to reproduce this article and distribute it
    within your communities. Get the word out of this danger to our 
    children.
    



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    Please do NOT pass this on!!!!!!!!!  This is one of many urban legends
    and has been around for some 15-20 years.  It is taken from a
    relatively popular book called "The Choking Doberman and other 'New'
    Urban Legends and is available at most bookstores.  There are folks 
    who have contacted the Cumberland County Sheriff's Dept (in Northeast 
    Maine - NOT in the Manchester/Concord, NH area as is said in the message)
    and have gotten different stories from the *same* sheriff's dept..
    
    There are discussions on this topic in UCOUNT::NEW_HAMPSHIRE,
    QUARK::HUMAN_RELATIONS, and ANCHOR::EASYNET to name a few.
    
    Someone called the Harvard Medical team and was told that absorbing
    LSD through the skin is impossible.

    While it is good that we be aware of things like this possibly
    happening, there really isn't a need to start a panic.  I have received
    variations of this message every year around this time (or late
    springtime) in the past four years I've been here at DEC.

    
    
    
    	thanks Kristy.  By the time I had put this in and forwarded
    	it to everyone and anyone I knew, someone else had told me
    	the exact same thing!
    
    	What kind of people are SICK enough to even START something
    	like this??  There's enough terror in the world without 
    	the need to ADD to it....
    
    	/kim
    

    my wife works for bank of boston and has mentioned seeing bulletins
    posted there also stating previously described "warnings/alerts"
    in the past few months.

    This seems quite irrevelant now, as this appears to be nothing more
    than a hoax. But I have to say that, re.1, I believe LSD CAN indeed be
    absorbed through the skin.  In fact, if I'm not mistaken, that's how it
    was first discovered in the laboratory (A doctor experimenting with a
    derivative of rye fungus reported experiencing strange hallucinations
    after having touched the substance.  The result--LSD).  Feel free to
    correct me if I'm wrong. This is just FYI.  
    
    Happy noting!