Lags are sniffing chilli powder for kicks after drug supplies dried up behind bars. A prisoner filmed himself snorting a line of the spice after moaning there was nothing else.
It is believed to have been recorded in Liverpool Prison. The unnamed con, inset, tells a fellow prisoner with a phone camera: “There’s no ket [ketamine], there’s no maj [marijuana], there’s no sniff [cocaine] – all the boys must have been on a bender so I’m on this gear.” He then holds up a bag of chilli to the lens and makes a line of it on top of a locker before snorting the powder.
The video was posted on Gangland Bible’s Facebook page on April 27 and has been viewed over 12,000 times. Drug abuse inside prisons has been a growing problem for years.
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