Bruno Gonzalez / Agencia O Globo via Reuters

Bags of cocaine that a dealer labeled with a photograph of singer Amy Winehouse are seen at a police station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 9.

Drug pushers use photo of Amy Winehouse to sell cocaine

Reuters reports that photographs of Amy Winehouse are being used as a form of marketing by Brazilian drug pushers. Several hundred bags of cocaine labeled with a photograph of the late singer and the words "Amy House" were confiscated from a dealer in the Mandela slum of Rio de Janeiro.

"Since there is so much information in the media that she was a drug user, the traffickers have taken advantage of this" to market their cocaine, Lieutenant Colonel Glaucio Moreira told local media, according to an AFP report.

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Of course Amy wasn't perfect and we don't know what demons haunted her soul but she had a beautiful gift and to desecrate her image in such a way... Well, as they say, "Consider the source."

    Reply#1 - Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:15 AM EDT

    WOW! I just don't know what if anything, to say.... rest in peace Amy.

      Reply#2 - Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:12 AM EDT

      This is what the dregs of society have come up with...

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      Reply#3 - Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:31 AM EDT
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