Methamphetamine Scourge Sweeps Rural America

Reuters (via Yahoo) ^ | Jan 29. 2005 | Alan Elsner

[fire_eye]

I don't get it... I'm trying to figure this out.

I've done far too many drugs, admittedly, but every time I started feeling *compelled* to do them, I'd quit. I just didn't want ANYTHING controlling my life, and I didn't care WHAT it was - my parents, the Government, the schools, drugs, religion, you name it - ANYTHING.

I tried meth twice and whatever the high, I felt so rotten coming down off it that I have never for the life of me understood why somebody would take MORE of it to stop feeling rotten. For God's sake, just QUIT TAKING the stuff!

I'm missing something here... I mean, really - I just don't get it.

[palmer]

Thank you. I read through all the wailing and hand wringing and was wondering where the heck the sane people went. The only thing worse than WOD propaganda is all the neophytes who parrot it.

[BigSkyFreeper]

There are Meth labs all over rural Montana, it's a problem that has gotten way out of hand. I remember when Meth labs only existed in the urban centers of Montana. this was 20 years ago. There have been several Meth labs busted about an hour or so south of me.

[investigateworld]

So what are you two proposing?

[not2worry]

I live in rural Missouri and during hunting season they tell us if we spot something suspect in the woods, call the Sheriff. It's one time in the year where you can find more meth labs than deer.

Wal Mart is also a hot spot for the portable meth vans. Several times the parking lot has been shut down. What do these Meth Heads think the cameras at the check out are for...entertainment while they check out their Sudafed and cough medicine?

Just learned the other day that rotting teeth in young people is a sigh of heavy meth use, not bade dental hygiene. Of course, if you are high, brushing your teeth is not a priority.

[BigSkyFreeper]

You laugh and scoff at people ingesting battery acid. I've read countless stories in the local press of kids as young as 12 or younger sniffing paint fumes and walking around with spray cans of cleaning solutions, because they can get high sniffing the fumes from that too.

[BigSkyFreeper]

...you all sound like a group of young Germans that just left the Reichstag back in the '30s after a little fire, or maybe a closer analogy would be Krystallnacht.

Crawl back to DU you piece of liberal scum.

[MarkL]

For a while, Independence, MO was the "Meth Capital" of the US. I don't know if that's still the case.

Mark

[BigSkyFreeper]

I see alot of glad handing and backslapping between the two of you, and agreeing that those who disagree with you two are a bunch of Nazi's. What I don't see is you two wise-asses proposing any solutions to the "problem".

[palmer]

Don't do drugs. That might sound simplistic, but all the people I know in my rural area don't do drugs and don't let their kids do them either.

[investigateworld]

That's for the suggestion!!!!
I'd still vote to execute any cooker/dealer. I had to deal with the results of their efforts and criminal acts for 20 years. Thank God my kids didn't get involved, but I saw thousands of other children who didn't have a 'connected' father who did.

[palmer]

When did I call anyone a Nazi? The first step towards a solution is to realistically assess the problem and take steps within your local area. For example, if I knew someone in my neighborhood had a lab I would work with my neighbors and HOA (not the police) to make them clean up their act. It's not different from any other antisocial behavior.

[palmer]

I'd still vote to execute any cooker/dealer.

Thank you for your suggestion. Would you execute them yourself or have someone else do it?

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>For example, if I knew someone in my neighborhood had a lab I would work with my neighbors and HOA (not the police) to make them clean up their act. It's not different from any other antisocial behavior.


How naive. A working Meth lab is not something you let your HOA handle. They are extremely dangerous.

[investigateworld]

Following a fair trial, with appropriate appeals?
IN A HEART BEAT !!!

[BigSkyFreeper]

When did I call anyone a Nazi?

If you're calling someome who calls everyone in this thread a Nazi, sane, you yourself are unknowingly saying the word Nazi.

[BigSkyFreeper]

if I knew someone in my neighborhood had a lab I would work with my neighbors and HOA

BS. I wouldn't. Tampering with evidence is also a crime. I sure as hell wouldn't get HOA involved if they were as ill-equipped as the neighbors. I wouldn't get involved, and I wouldn't want my neighbors getting involved. I'll let those who know what the hell they're doing get involved.

[MarkL]

Battery Acid! Ooo Ooo I wanna ingest some!

I can't believe people sometimes.

It's amazing to hear what people are using now...

There's a "drug" that's known as "water." It's formaldahyde! And there are people who dip cigarettes in it, dry them, and then smoke it! YIKES!!!!

Mark

[palmer]

They are extremely dangerous.

As dangerous as a drunk guy shooting off his porch? There are lots of things we handle in our neighborhood that are precursors to the same antisocial behavior as meth labs. By stopping people from messing up the neighborhood in smaller ways we prevent bigger problems.

[Catmom]

"Tacoma WA would give rural MO a run for the money. Even up here on Whidbey Is. the problem isn't insignificant."

I live in Graham, WA (in same county as Tacoma) and can vouch for Pierce County as having to be the meth lab capital of the universe.