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"Purple drank

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Purple drink is a slang term for a recreational drug popular in the hip hop community in the southern United States, specifically Northern Mississippi. Its main ingredient is prescription-strength cough syrup containing codeine and promethazine.[1] Cough syrup is typically mixed with ingredients such as 7Up soft drink and pieces of Jolly Rancher candy. The purplish hue of purple drank comes from dyes in the cough syrup...

...In 2004, the University of Texas found that 8.3% of secondary school students in Texas had taken codeine syrup to get high..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_drank

This is a really good article...does anyone live in a part of the country where this is popular? I live in the Northeast, and know of people using cough syrup for DXM, but I'm wondering about the use of codeine and promethazine containing bottles.

Where is it coming from? How much is it sold for? How do people use it? How widespread is its use?

It seems like an interesting sub-culture, or drug culture, that has existed for quite some time in part of the country yet it goes relatively unrecognized elsewhere.

haven´t seen it around here yet, but as I know the locals it will appear soon...

  On 5/7/2010 at 12:22 PM, carthief said:

My link

hands down the funniest paragraph from that article:

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Big Moe, a DJ Screw protegé whose albums City of Syrup and Purple World were based on the drink and who has been described as having "rapped incessantly about the drug,"[19] died at age 33 on October 14, 2007, after suffering a heart attack one week earlier that left him in a coma.[20] There was speculation that purple drank may have contributed to his death. [14][21]

big moe:

and dj screw, big moe's guru and fellow drank ennthusiast, died "of a codeine-promethazine-alcohol overdose on November 16, 2000."

Why is that funny?

coz they're like, fucking stupid.

lol

  On 5/7/2010 at 1:47 PM, ms-dos said:

  On 5/7/2010 at 12:22 PM, carthief said:

My link

 

hands down the funniest paragraph from that article:

 

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Big Moe, a DJ Screw protegé whose albums City of Syrup and Purple World were based on the drink and who has been described as having "rapped incessantly about the drug,"[19] died at age 33 on October 14, 2007, after suffering a heart attack one week earlier that left him in a coma.[20] There was speculation that purple drank may have contributed to his death. [14][21]

 

big moe:

*runs out and buys City of Syrup and Purple World*

Oh, and there's this buffalo wangs place near me. One night I ordered 'purple drank' and that sweet nubile youth laughed at me. I wanted grape coolaid.

Who knew?

  On 5/7/2010 at 2:24 PM, BCM said:

coz they're like, fucking stupid.

No one you respect has overdosed?

i thought codeine was scheduled in the US -- need a scribe -- maybe even a valid ID

I live in the southeast and hear tails of these drinks. There are a few variations on the name, but what I hear it referred to most commonly is: "sizzurp." In Houston (Texas) it is called "Lean" and they use sprite instead of 7up.

your avatar is purple. has it been drank?

of course. dirdy souf, u no haw we do

  On 5/7/2010 at 3:05 PM, hahathhat said:

i thought codeine was scheduled in the US -- need a scribe -- maybe even a valid ID

hahathhat - yes, you definitely need a prescription for this stuff. that's part of what interests me about it...I'm wondering how dealers, or whoever supplies the users with the bottles, obtain enough to sell, where they obtain it, etc.

I'm guessing, now that I think about it, that a lot of it probably comes up from Mexico. And that would make sense considering its prevalence in the South.

yeah, you can order codeine pills from spain or something, so why not syrup?

pretty sure you can get codeine otc in canada

juice?

anyhow, just get some heroin you pussies.

yeah, kind of weird they wouldn't just take a pill. who likes drinking cough syrup?

the purpose is not to obtain drank the purpose is to discuss it.

  On 5/7/2010 at 6:03 PM, hahathhat said:

yeah, kind of weird they wouldn't just take a pill. who likes drinking cough syrup?

That's part of what makes it interesting to me. I think part of it is that because it's in kind of a weird form, almost alcohol-like, it's not as clearly a "junkie drug."

  On 5/7/2010 at 3:02 PM, acidphakist said:

buffalo wangs

sounds filling