Things are tough all over.

[Charles]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=126806429

Chas

[merrylander]

Pretty much supports my position that legalizing drugs would put the druglords out of business.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Pretty much supports my position that legalizing drugs would put the druglords out of business.

right again

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...-93708809.html

78 arrested in one very very small city in the lazy Hudson Valley
(total population only 28,000.)

all very violent folks. Took years of work and 600 agents. Imagine the cost.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Pretty much supports my position that legalizing drugs would put the druglords out of business.

If there's a lesson to be learned, that would be it.

Chas

[Sandy G]

Every week down here, they find & have to clean up, the remnants of a meth lab. This involves moon suits, hazmat teams, the whole 9 yards. Muy expensivo. The good thing is, however, SOMETIMES, a meth lab blows up, & takes a few idiots w/it.

[Grumpy]

2k a pound ? Dang, I remember it was 400...

[hillbilly]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Every week down here, they find & have to clean up, the remnants of a meth lab. This involves moon suits, hazmat teams, the whole 9 yards. Muy expensivo. The good thing is, however, SOMETIMES, a meth lab blows up, & takes a few idiots w/it.

Yeah, it's bad alright. I didn't know that the law here has changed until I went to the dollar store last week to buy two cans of spray paint to paint a rebuilt Ford engine. They I-DEED me to make sure I was 30 years old. I thanked them for the complement because I'm 41, lol. When did they pass the ' must be 30 to buy spray paint law '? Are that many foolish people really huffin' the shit?

[merrylander]

Probably spray painting buildings with "art"

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Every week down here, they find & have to clean up, the remnants of a meth lab. This involves moon suits, hazmat teams, the whole 9 yards. Muy expensivo. The good thing is, however, SOMETIMES, a meth lab blows up, & takes a few idiots w/it.

They used to have a list of things the meth cooks buy posted at the hardware store.

Coffee filters, muriatic acid, and lye come to mind. I think they use it to refine cheap cold medicine.

Chas

[piece-itpete]

There's a line, and legalizing stuff like meth crosses it imho.

The poor CA growers, clamoring for years for legalization and bam! Monstano and ADM will wipe the floor with them.

Pete