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CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna, Philippines — Illegal drugs worth P637.8 million were incinerated in a facility of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Cavite on Wednesday.
The illegal drugs, seized from various anti-narcotic operations since the start of the year, were kept and used as evidence in court cases.
They were destroyed to “eliminate any misconception that these items are being recycled and peddled back into the streets,” Undersecretary Arturo G. Cacdac, Jr., PDEA director general, said in a statement.
The drugs, which had a total weight of 386.08 kilograms, were composed of shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride), ephedrine, cocaine, marijuana, ecstasy, valium, oxycodone and expired medicines.
Much of the drugs stockpiled at the PDEA was ephedrine, a primary ingredient in manufacturing shabu, the PDEA said.
Destruction of the seized drugs was held at the Integrated Waste Management Inc. in Barangay (village) Aguado in Trece Martires City.
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