I'm with you, this stuff has been around for a while. It's a huge problem in some rural areas where they steal anhydrous ammonia to make the stuff. It's really a horrible, highly addictive drug.
The stuff has been around, but apparently the use of it by gays is increasing, significantly. Sad , sad, sad, to see gays doing even more harmful things to their bodies. Not so highly evolved after all.
It's a very big problem here in rural Oklahoma. Several months ago we had an Oklahoma trooper shot when he went to check out a car that had been parked on the side of the road for a little while. Turns out the car was a rolling meth lab and belonged to a former Duncan, Ok fireman.
A couple of weeks ago we were listening to the police scanner and heard one of the policemen call in saying he smelled a strong chemical smell near a house in town. They busted the house the next day. Our town has a population of 5,000. Meth is the biggest problem we face here.
Oklahoma rececently passed a law where all allergy medication that contains (I think this is the name of the stuff) ephedrine in tablet form has to be behind the pharmacy counter and has to be signed for. I read recently where along the shared border of Texas there had been a large number of people crossing over to purchase these tablets.
There's a bar to the east of town you wouldn't catch me dead in since the clientele there are mostly meth users.