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i think i read where the US did so as well. speed's also a big seller in major league baseball, especially on day games following night games (usually getaway day at the end of a series).
when it started blowing up in hawaii, they said that that form of the drug (crystals) was developed in the orient and that they liked the small airstrips on remote areas of the hawaiian islands as entry points into the US. iirc, 'batu' is the filipino name for the drug and 'shabu' is the korean name for it.