Is meth rampant where you live?

[trof]

Seems like the police are busting 2 or 3 labs a week here in coastal Alabama.
They're everywhere.
I guess it's fairly easy to cook it up.

One was in a Holiday Inn.
Guests reported 'odd odors' to the management who contacted police.

Many are in mobile homes in remote areas.
And many have explosions that annihilate the trailer.
Meth is called 'Redneck Cocaine' down here.

[mzteris]

1. our office was robbed

there must have been 7 computers in there. Lots of electronics.

They took all the cleaning supplies.

The did take one small scanner - though there were 7 or 8. The small crappy copier. Oh - and the big screen tv... (my boss likes to watch the news - NOT FOX! ) And they trashed the place.

Cleaning supplies. Really.

[kayakjohnny]

2. They can even cook it in a vehicle. Mobile meth labs they call them.

Especially stolen vehicles. I don't get what it's all about yet. It sure is a freaky trend. I have other ways of getting high and most of them are legal. But this is a whole other animal.

And yes, I think this crap is everywhere.

[Art_from_Ark]

17. Speaking of mobile meth labs...

The was a recent bust of a mobile meth lab in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, that was parked in the parking lot of (I'm not making this up)... USA Drugs!

http://nwahomepage.com/fulltext-news?nxd_id=293957

[siligut]

3. Not rampant, but there is some

People who use it smell like old, cat urine and the labs smell like sweet solvents and acrid chemicals, I smelled both last year. There was a house explosion up near us a couple years ago, but I understand that was a gas leak. Meth is just bad news.

[bigwillq]

4. No

At least I don't think it is. I live in CT

[Joe Shlabotnik]

5. nooooooooooope, we stick with glue around here!

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[Iggo]

6. Not since the mid 90s.

[RebelOne]

7. Yep, there are many arrests here in North Georgia

for meth production. In fact, last year, a house was blown up because of crystal meth production. The blast killed 2 children.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. The house I lived in two years ago had a meth lab directly across the street

Got up one morning and every parking space on the street and side streets was taken. I thought there was something going on at the high school two blocks away (streets filled up every time there was a graduation / registration / etc).

But it had nothing to do with the high school. It was the FBI and DEA.

They set up a tent in the driveway...computer for logging in the evidence, guys in HazMat suits. They brought out box after box after box (nondescript boxes that they used to transport the stuff).

The process took two days and then they had one of these "industrial cleaning" companies come out that cleans meth labs from top to bottom.

They were not manufacturing it in the house, but they were storing it and transporting it. I'd seen people in the house coming and going at odd hours...between midnight and 6 AM, and they would be loading / unloading their trucks, but I never thought anything of it. I knew these people were no good but did not suspect that it was a meth lab.

[Moondog]

9. No. Fifty miles from here is another story altogether.

[femmocrat]

10. Not that I have heard. They are still on oxycontin around here.

And heroin.

[DerekG]

11. No, but it's starting to (New York state)

Not good.

Meth is the one drug that no sane wo/man could possibly be cavalier about. Kids have died just from sniffing discarded soda bottles alongside the road.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

12. I live in the 417!

That (417) is also one of the street names for that stuff, so yeah it is a problem.

[Arkansas Granny]

13. The latest thing around here is the "shake and bake" method of making meth.

Apparently, small amounts can be made in a two litre bottle in just a short period of time. It's pretty common to read about meth busts in the paper.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. No, but I live in the city - it seems to be more of a rural thing.

I've heard it's subsided a bit since they made it harder to buy over-the-counter Sudafed in drugstores, but they still bust meth labs fairly often out in the country.

[bluedigger]

15. Meth is so 2000's.

Bath salts are where the action is.

[XemaSab]

16. There's an abandoned meth house two doors down from me

It's ALL OVER around here.

[sakabatou]

18. No.

[TheCruces]

19. Yeah, but it mostly comes from Mexico here

[Behind the Aegis]

20. In Oklahoma, I think it is our number one manufactured product.

It used to be #1 was California, then Oklahoma, the Arkansas. I don't know if that is still true. We just had two incidents here with someone actually making meth in a Wal-Mart! Not getting the products...MAKING IT!

[laconicsax]

21. It was when I lived in Southern Oregon.

[Chan790]

22. DC?

No, rather non-existent AFAIK. DC has drug problems to be sure but meth's not really a local flavor. DC's a coke town.

[ellisonz]

23. Yes.

I've seen it around in Los Angeles, Honolulu, and Portland. I've had friends and family who were addicted. It is a destroyer of life.

In Hawaii, it is either called ice or batu.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

24. When I lived on the West Coast it was everywhere.

You never hear about it in the NYC area. Here it's coke and crack.