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Crystal methamphetamine is the greatest drug threat to Australians, with usage spreading across the nation despite unprecedented seizures of the substance by authorities, Justice Minister Michael Keenan said Wednesday.
Keenan, who was releasing an Australian Crime Commission report into the supply and use of the white crystalline drug, also known as “ice”, said local and international crime groups were heavily involved in the illicit trade.
“Our nation's addiction to this mind-eating, personality-distorting, life-ending drug is undermining the social fabric of communities, and paying big dividends to the organised criminal syndicates that are profiting from its misery,” the minister said in a statement …. http://www.hindustantimes.com