Meth labs move from rural areas to US cities

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Meth labs move from rural areas to US cities
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December 29th, 2012

Methamphetamine lab seizures are on the rise in US cities and suburbs as makers of the lethal drug have been moving their now-portable labs into more populated areas and increasing production.

Methamphetamines used to be produced most frequently in rural areas, where abandoned buildings and farmhouses offered an ideal location for a hidden lab. With fewer authorities to combat the problem and wide open spaces that makes it difficult to find rural meth labs, the drug makers more often chose to operate production from the countryside. Anhydrous ammonia, a key ingredient in producing meth, can also be found more frequently in rural areas, since farmers use the chemical as fertilizer.

But a rise in portable labs has made it easier for meth makers to move to US cities and suburbs, especially since the portable labs lack the odor that once forced the drug makers to the countryside. The deadly drug can now be made in someone’s car using a bottle of soda. This ‘shake-and-bake’ method produces the drug in smaller quantities, but doesn’t make production any less dangerous: the chemical reaction can still cause a large explosion, even if it is produced in container as small as an empty water bottle.

With easily accessible recipes on the Internet and cheap ingredients available in many US stores, more people have begun to produce their own meth. Cold pills, battery acid and drain cleaner are some of the substances required to produce the lethal drug.

“Bad guys have it figured out,” Rusty Payne of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency told the Associated Press. “You don’t have to be as clandestine – you don’t have to be in rural country to lay low.”
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unfortunately enough the "pop bottle" method of making meth is a miracle of chemistry in itself that it even works at all. it deserves its own ig nobel prize for innovation in kicking hornets' nests.

the prinicple is pretty solid though, let's shake an alakali-metal and solvent based pipe bomb vigourously, and hope it makes meth.
 
the media always mentions a cocktail of home chemicals that can be used in the production of meth. it doesn't mean that if you mix them all in a jar that you will end up with meth though!
 
I went to go buy a box of psuedo the other day (allergies, not walter white); Last time I went they made me sign my name in a log and looked at my license. This time they actually scanned my drivers license before letting me purchase any.

I know here in Georgia at least the vast majority of meth on the market is high purity "ice" from Mexico. I know more meth users than I would care too and I haven't heard about any batches of homebrew being sold around here all year.

This may have to do with the fact the cartels distribute to the rest of the east coast from Atlanta, however.

the media always mentions a cocktail of home chemicals that can be used in the production of meth. it doesn't mean that if you mix them all in a jar that you will end up with meth though!
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I heard if you do a rail of pseudo in one nostril and a rail of sodium hydroxide in the other, your body will synthesize it into meth!
 
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