Kiwis looking for permanent Mexican experience

As far as I know, all 34 legal Kiwis in Mexico now are alive and breathing. Given the trouble shipping their drug of choice back home, I’m sure the number of DEAD Kiwis is gonna pile up pretty quickly. Great… I’m sure the New Zealand Ambassador is just thrilled (to death) about this.  I can foresee a market for unused return tickets to New Zealand ahead (and growth in the funeral parlor and shipping industries):

Elderly and sick Kiwis will travel to Mexico accompanied by the man dubbed “Dr Death” to buy powerful suicide drugs they then plan to smuggle home.

Euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke told The Dominion Post that he was organising the first trip for New Zealanders to buy the life-ending drug Nembutal, which is used by vets to put animals down.

The powerful barbiturate is used in countries, including Switzerland, where euthanasia is legal.

Dr Nitschke said he planned to meet about eight Kiwis – who will spend an estimated $15,000 on the trip – next month in San Diego.

He would then escort them to Mexico, where the drug can be bought legally.

He would help them find the drug and buy it and said it was then up to them if they wished to risk bringing it back to New Zealand.

The Kiwis would be expected to make the return trip themselves, taking responsibility for their actions.

A Customs spokeswoman said that, if the group was found to have Nembutal, it would be seized as with other “restricted or prohibited” goods.

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Medical Association chairman Ross Boswell has said barbiturates were previously found in sleeping tablets, but now doctors “rarely, if ever” prescribed such medication.

Death isn’t listed as one of the side effects for Nembutol, but I’m sure if you took enough of anything it’d kill ya, and its the hip new drug for the soon-to-be existentially challenged. Apparently, what the Kiwis want is veternary nembutol, which is used among other things for anesthetizing bats (really… somebody wanting to study bat parasites found that really stoned bats were more cooperative).