Current Affairs Czech-made party drug gains popularity in neighbouring Germany and Austria
"Flyer's chocolate", "shabu" or "gingerbread" - currently the most popular hard drug in the Czech Republic has a lot of names and a colourful history. It was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 and during the Second World War it was given to the country's kamikaze pilots. The German military dispensed the drug to its war pilots and Adolf Hitler is rumoured to have received three daily injections of it from his personal physician. It was banned after the war but was later re-discovered by drug addicts in communist Czechoslovakia. Illegal Czech producers are now smuggling it back to Germany and Austria.
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