Overview of Criminal Activity
Synthetic drugs include a wide variety of chemically based illicit drugs but for the purposes of this report CISC will concentrate on MDMA (Ecstasy) and methamphetamine.The rave phenomenon and club drug scene in the 1990s became to some degree associated to ecstasy consumption and trafficking and while still popular, consumption rates appear to be on the decline in Canada. However, methamphetamine, a chemical that achieved some level of popularity during the 1970s, has re-emerged and its consumption level is once again on the increase in Canada.