Australia sees fantasy differently
Here's an observation I don't understand the meaning of.
Three leads from Australia:
The Age: "A popular children's toy found to contain a chemical that the human body turns into the party drug "fantasy", or "GHB", has been banned in three states..."
NEWS.com.au: "An award-winning children's toy has been recalled because it contains a chemical which turns into a dangerous party drug when metabolised in the body."
Ninemsn: "Concerns are rising that drug-users may flock to Victorian toy stores after that state's authorities failed to withdraw from sale a popular children's toy that metabolises into the party drug fantasy when eaten."
Contrast with these headlines and leads from around the world:
CNN International: "'Date rape' drug in children's toy"
International Herald Tribune: "Toy beads found to contain precursor to 'date rape' drug"
Wall Street Journal: "Retailers around the world scrambled to pull a popular toy called Bindeez off the shelves Wednesday after a chemical in some shipments of the Chinese-made product was found to mimic the effects of the so-called date rape drug."
Reuters: "Australia announced a nationwide ban on Wednesday on around 1 million Chinese-made toys after investigations showed they contained a chemical which metabolises when swallowed into a date-rape drug."
BBC News: "Australia has issued a nationwide ban on a Chinese-made toy after it was found to contain a substance linked to the date-rape drug GHB"
1 comments:
Very interesting observation. My impression was that GHB is both taken recreationally and used as a date rape drug.
Maybe this is based on copying behaviour in the media - perhaps there is an official release which just says GHB, then Reuters adds "date rape" and the international press copies, while the Australian media copies another secondary source.
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