TulsaNow Online Meth Lab Summet

[Chicken Little]

Gaspar,

Great thread, this should be of concern to all of us.  I use sudafed fairly regularly, and so I'm very familiar with the ID check.  They take my license and disappear for about 2 mins. while they run it through a system.  Is this system networked?  Are convicted meth makers and users banned from purchasing psuedophedrine?  How about "Smurfs", i.e., folks who run around and buy boxes all day.  'Cause that would be helpful.

So, I've read that with Shake 'n Bake, they only need 3-6 boxes for the recipe, you don't need dozens of boxes, which makes it fairly easy again to skirt the law.  Get two or three friends together, and 40 minutes later (assuming you haven't blown up), you're ready to go.  I've also read that the "smartest" (it's all relative) way to make it via shake 'n bake is in a rolling car, so, are you guys advised on how to spot it/smell it on the street?

I talked to a bio-chemist friend and he seemed to think that it probably wouldn't be possible to put an adulterant in the drug that messes with it when cooked.  Apparently, when you swallow them, the chemical reaction inside your body is pretty analogous to  the act of cooking it.

But there is one very straightforward way to eliminate meth addiction.  "Meth is uniquely susceptible to supply-side intervention".  There are only nine factories in the world that make it and you can easily eliminate unregulated manufacture of the active ingredient.

Simply restrict supply to legitimate pharma companies, and further, limit supply to what can legitimately be used for sniffles in a country.  They've already done this for codeine, for instance.  That way, neither Mexico, nor Canada, nor anyone could acquire enough pseudophedrine to supply the US with meth or meth ingredients.

The DEA has intervened with ephedrine in 1996 and meth purity went way way down. But the pharmaceutical companies wouldn't let them regulate pseudoephedrine, and the superlabs were back in business in less than one year, they simply switched from ephedrine to psuedoephedrine.

You should definitely check out this episode of Frontline:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/
It will p*ss you off, but it will also give you hope.  Meth manufacture CAN be stopped.

[patric]

Have they evac'd the building and prepared it for destruction?

It is kinda funny that the whole dog-and-pony decontamination sideshow they do for private property didnt apply to the State Office Building.

I didnt see any "specialists" in environment suits ripping out sheetrock or pulling up carpet. 

Double standard?