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Post by TKennedy on Jul 7, 2009 6:37:09 GMT -5
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Post by omaha on Jul 7, 2009 6:54:18 GMT -5
Meth is such lovely stuff, isn't it?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2009 7:42:08 GMT -5
How timely. There have been two meth labs/distribution rings busted here in the last month.
Horrible stuff.
Tom
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Post by knobtwister on Jul 7, 2009 8:56:44 GMT -5
Seems like they bust one every week here. The latest trend is mobile labs in the trunks of cars.
Don
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Post by iamjohnne on Jul 7, 2009 9:03:37 GMT -5
The comments posted on the article were interesting.
I think it is sad when anyone is addicted to that stuff. I have had to deal with it on a personal level with Wayne's daughter. She is nolonger a user and doing well, but there were several years that she was pretty much MIA and not good at all. She is a good person, that stuff is so addicting and leaves one such a ghost of a person. It took her a long time to recover.
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Post by omaha on Jul 7, 2009 9:12:52 GMT -5
Anyone get into "Breaking Bad"? It was all about a guy getting into the meth business. Brilliantly written show.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 7, 2009 9:15:10 GMT -5
Anyone get into "Breaking Bad"? It was all about a guy getting into the meth business. Brilliantly written show. I watched the first 10 episodes or so. It was so well done that I had to stop watching, just too wrenching. I had the same problem with The Sopranos. |
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Post by RickW on Jul 7, 2009 9:46:41 GMT -5
We had a lab here explode a few months ago. Blew the side out of the apartment building, and sent one of the lab rats out of the hole. Amazingly, he survived, relatively unhurt.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2009 9:56:02 GMT -5
Seems like they bust one every week here. The latest trend is mobile labs in the trunks of cars. Don 'Round here, they run the mobile labs in motorhomes. Tom |
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 7, 2009 9:57:41 GMT -5
Seems like they bust one every week here. The latest trend is mobile labs in the trunks of cars. Don 'Round here, they run the mobile labs in motorhomes. Tom Doug's retirement gig? |
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Post by Supertramp78 on Jul 7, 2009 11:22:25 GMT -5
There are several web sites with photo essays showing the progression of meth on the faces of addicts. Same person over 10 years based on mug shots. Horrifying.
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Post by Don Clark on Jul 7, 2009 11:36:02 GMT -5
You can see it on the face of a guy I used to play with a few years back.....Mike Knapic. He died in Feb. of '08, I mentioned it back then. He was only late 40's, but looked much older. Here's a shot of him on his old Myspace page..... www.myspace.com/mikeknapic |
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Post by SteveO on Jul 7, 2009 11:45:42 GMT -5
Ah yes Chemistry  Dopamine= C_{8} - H_{11} - O_{2} - N_{1} Amphetamine= C_{10} - H_{13} - N_{1} Methamphetamine= C_{10} - H_15} -N_{1} Of course the DEA estimates that there are now more than 300 ways to manufacture methamphetamine using pseudo-ephedrine (Uncle Fester, 1998). Ephedrine and pseudo-ephedrine are manufactured in 8 plants throughout the world (5 in India, 2 in China, and 1 in Germany). Much of the precursor destined for U.S. markets has been diverted to illicit channels in Mexico. |
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Post by Doug on Jul 7, 2009 12:36:53 GMT -5
'Round here, they run the mobile labs in motorhomes. Tom Doug's retirement gig? Nope, down here they stop you at the Border Patrol check points to see if you have a load of Mexican farm workers. Now if I was doing that it would be a real case of "coyote ugly" |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2009 18:58:18 GMT -5
I worked on an S&R team with a guy who recovered from his addiction to crank. A very formidable fellow, and one of the gut-busting TOUGH dudes I ever met. No man could stay with him in the backcountry, no matter what he was hauling, or whether he had snow shoes or skis. Dude could just plumb put down miles on you, under any conditions. Kind of superhuman. The guy who always humped the heavy gear, extra packs, a sled, and still outran everybody without breathing hard.
And HE said that kicking meth was the hardest thing he could ever imagine. Going 50 miles in 24 hours UP Rogers pass in -30 temps, he said, "was a breeze" compared to dealing with deprivation from crank. I made him tell my oldest son just that, because it stunned the hell out of me. I figure us mortals should best stay away from the stuff. And, next time you see someone recovering from it, appreciate what they have to go through. If it could seriously kick this guy's ass, it would work the rest of us over, real good.
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