Legal chemicals sold to fuel heroin profits / The Observer, September 7 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/sep/07/drugsandalcohol.drugstrade?gusrc=rss&feed=society
"Organised criminal gangs are developing a lucrative trade in importing mass quantities of legal chemicals and selling them on to drug dealers to be used as cutting agents for heroin and cocaine. The so-called 'smash' or 'bash' industry is now generating such large profits that some criminal gangs have stopped selling illegal drugs to focus on buying and selling legal chemicals, according to Drugscope, the charity that monitors the price of drugs on Britain's streets."