Investigated! - Aqua Beads Contain Date Rape Drug - Poor Judgment, or Terrorism?

I, like most Associated content readers have become aware of recent recalls world-wide of Aqua Beads, or Bindeex Beads. Reportedly these beads, manufactured in China, utilize a chemical which when ingested becomes GHB, Gamma Hydroxybutyric acid,which is, in fact, a currently popular hallucinogenic, and very potent "date-rape" drug. I questioned in my mind whether the sales of this potent drug to American children, and children all over the world, in beads that are colorful and subject to childish ingestion, was the result of simply irresponsible planning, or perhaps, particularly considering the likelihood of the drug being prohibitively expensive, a terrorist undertaking. This article is an attempt to resolve that concern.

The craft toy popular among youngsters all over the world, including the U.S., Australia, Spain, and New Zealand, a toy marketed in the U.S. as Aqua Beads, in other parts of the world as Bindeez Beads, has within the last few days been pulled from store shelves by the Consumer Product Safety Commission after receiving reports of children swallowing the beads and becoming unconscious.

Lynette Komiya's and her 18-month old son Brady spent a painful night together in a Mapleton Emergency Room. "Right away I knew something was wrong," said Komiya. "When Brady slowly woke up from a nap he didn't seem normal. He would wake up, cry, and then fall right back to sleep. A few minutes later, at a school function, Brady started spitting up green...He was so out of it and it was really scary. I thought I need to get to a doctor right now". In another incident , in early October, a 2-year-old boy was admitted to a Sydney hospital after he fell into a coma and began suffering seizure like spasms. In Emergency rooms, doctors encountering these severally impaired children were at a loss to explain, owing to the failure of the toy manufacturer to list the dangerous drug as a component of the beads manufacture.