Good read! Learned a lot about the grateful dead & some cool facts about LSD
"Snapchat can kill you.
The same goes for Bitcoin, UPS, and everybody's favorite superhero, Superman.
Since 2013, this social networking app, digital currency, delivery service, and comic book character have each had their logos printed on what was sold as tablets of ecstasy, the quintessential party drug.
Branded pills of ecstasy and other illicit substances have become the norm, a way for drug dealers to market their high-quality product--and, far more worrisome, a way for copycats to flood the black market with dangerous knockoffs that have killed or hospitalized people around the world."
"The appropriation of logos from well known brands or franchises is nothing new for drug dealers and manufacturers, according to Travis Wendel, the research director of St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction and co-author of The Heraldry of Heroin: 'Dope Stamps' and the Dynamics of Drug Markets in New York City.
"In the ecstasy market, I'm not at all surprised that online services like Snapchat and things of this ilk would be used because these are services that are popular among the people who consume these drugs," Wendel told me during a phone interview. "They are sort of hijacking the brand. They are repurposing the brand for marketing."
The evolution of branding drugs is a long, strange trip--one that ends with us making our own pills and stamping on your favorite logos, just for that little extra marketing kick."
http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/branded-ecstasy-pills-drugs/
The history is interesting if you didn't already know it.
The rest is a scare story about how bad drugs are.