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According to a Banner Health news release, medical toxicologists and physicians are on alert after reports surfaced that methamphetamine was found in 7Up drinks originating in Mexicali. Baja California's Health Department officials said health authorities have removed the products from shelves.
Chris Barnes, spokesman for Dr Pepper Snapple Group, reassured that no 7Up products in the United States have been contaminated. The company distributes 7Up in the United States.
"None of the 7Up products sold in the U.S. are affected by the issue being reported in Mexico," said Barnes. "Dr Pepper Snapple owns and licenses the 7Up brand only in the U.S. and its territories. We do not market, sell or distribute the brand internationally."
The Baja attorney general's office announced on its Facebook page that an investigation is underway in order to figure out how the drug made its way into the soda.
Dr. Daniel Brooks at Banner Health cautioned anyone traveling to Mexico. "It is important to check that the seal for any food and drink consumed is still intact and shows no signs of tampering," Brooks said.
Some side effects of drinking contaminated sodas are burning of the esophagus and stomach, vomiting and a fast or irregular heartbeat, according to Banner Health.
In July, the U.S. State Department alerted travelers to Mexico about possible tainted or counterfeit alcohol that could cause sickness and blacking out.
That warning came in the wake of a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation surrounding a Wisconsin woman's death that raised questions about drinks being served in all-inclusive resorts in Mexico.
One would guess that one meth heavy batch got dumped back into the main supply/tank/syrup by someone trying to avoid being busted at the plant.
It is also a perfect example of the casualties of innocents coming from the very nature of 'our' 'Drug War' (on people.)
If Crystal Meth was legal (and it is, but that's another story) there would be no black market for it. The US could put warnings on it, (like it does on Alcohol and Cigs which are each more deadly, in present realities)... but of course, if you read the post above interviewing Doug Valentine you'll see how the PTB's CIA does not want legalization, and thus it's not even allowed on the table of discussion,
That flashes me back to a line / scene in the stupid pro drug war movie, 'Traffic.' There, (as I recall, as I could only tolerate it once - and barely even that), the 'Good Guy Drug Czar (oxymoron granted) asks his fellow 'good guy' people,(id.) if any have any answers about how to fix the problem of illegal drugs, "no answers/ideas are off limits" and they sadly sit in silence for a pregnant 40? seconds??? (with, 'tragically' sniff* 'no answer' and only sighs...) and NOT A ONE says, 'Why don't we simply legalize and tax the stuff? I KNOW I'm not the only one who's screamed that at the stupid scene.)
R.C.