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We’ve been living opposite a meth lab
By ruth | November 2, 2007
Dave got home last night to find the street cordoned off by the police, and hazmat vans everywhere. Turns out they discovered a meth lab (for producing methamphetamine, for those like me who don’t know much about these things) in an apartment across the street from us.
Luckily our house was just outside the cordon, and our bedroom is not at the front of our house, so we weren’t disturbed by the floodlights powered by a generator that ran all through the night. The hazmat people in big scary white hazmat suits were still working when we left for work this morning. They had blue tarpaulins across the street and were carefully moving things into blue plastic containers and bins and such.
I know nothing about meth labs that I didn’t learn from Grey’s Anatomy - clearly a reliable source of information - but by all accounts meth is highly toxic and the ingredients for producing it are highly explosive. So all in all I’m glad to see it all being handled so carefully, even if it does all seem a bit dramatic.
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June 2nd, 2008 at 11:46 pm
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June 6th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Crystal meth is as toxic as bupropion and effexor. Don’t underestimate the toxicity of prescription drugs. The only difference is our drug laws leads to meth labs and grow ops, because illegal drugs are lucrative.
The best solution is to charge those drug dealers user fees, and to siphon their GST rebates into paying those fees.
Anything else is just criminalizing their behavior, and that’s been a failure. The increasing drug- and gang-related shootings are evidence of this!