Microgram: The Lake County Crime Laboratory (Painesville, Ohio) recently received a plastic zip-lock baggie containing 15 red colored tablets with the 'Ferrari' logo imprinted on each [...]. The exhibit was obtained in Mayfield Heights in an undercover purchase by the Mayfield Heights Police Department, and were purported by the seller to be Ecstasy. The tablets measured 8 mm in diameter (width and total net mass not reported). Analysis by GC/MS, however, indicated not MDMA but rather methamphetamine (not quantitated). It appeared that the seller was unaware of the actual composition of the tablets.
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