Mexican army finds 15 tons of pure methamphetamine
MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexican troops have made an historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco, the Mexican army said in a statement released late Wednesday.
Soldiers discovered the huge cache in the town of Tlajomulco de Zuniga, a suburb of Mexico's second-largest city, Guadalajara.
The statement had no other details but said it would publicly present the seizure on Thursday. Spokesmen answering the phone at the army's base in Guadalajara refused to comment further.
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The find outside Guadalajra is more than four times the size of a major seizure last summer of 3.4 tons (3.1 metric tons) and more than twice the total amount of meth seized in Mexico in 2009, according to the U.N. report.
More: http://news.yahoo.com/mexican-army-finds-15-tons-pure-methamphetamine-051752554.html
MidwestTransplant
(8,015 posts)ellisonz
(27,711 posts)flamingdem
(39,321 posts)Good one though, let's see if I can copy it.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)iemitsu
(3,888 posts)RainDog
(28,784 posts)SayIt
(16 posts)Finally paying off?
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)They used meth stay awake on long flights in. Ith theaters of war. Hell, the ground forces used it, too.
Johnson20
(315 posts)I would like to read more about this, so source please. I have/had a lot or relatives who were WWII vets, both in the air and on the ground. They have never mentioned this.
former9thward
(32,077 posts)"Amphetamine has been, and is still, used by militaries around the world. British troops used 72 million amphetamine tablets in the second world war and the RAF used so many that "Methedrine won the Battle of Britain" according to one report. American bomber pilots use amphetamine ("go pills" to stay awake during long missions."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Rather short of fifteen million tons per day usage by US airmen alone...
Not so much as badly stated, but rather a misstatement by any measure.
trof
(54,256 posts)In the mid 60s I was one of six pilots who flew cramped, single-seat fighters (RF-84/F) from Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico to Birmingham, Alabama where our Air National Guard base was located.
We'd been on a one week joint exercise down there.
The trip was about 1500 miles and took around 5 hours.
We 'buddy' flew with a couple of KC-135 tankers so we could refuel from time to time.
You couldn't really move around or stretch in that confining cockpit, so I was numb from the hips down about 3 hours into the flight.
The doc gave each of us some kind of amphetamine tablet to take an hour before our arrival.
As you can imagine, we were dead tired by then and needed to be 'up' for landing.
After we'd parked and shut the birds down, he gave us a 'Stop' pill, probably some form of phenobarbital.
I took it with a couple of beers (Yeah, bad, I know) and zonked for about 18 hours.
One of my buddies on that flight topped it and then some in 1991.
"The RF-4C Phantom II was the last manned, tactical reconnaissance aircraft in U. S. Air Force inventory. The 1991 Persian Gulf conflict was its last war. Still, the RF-4C was in on the action in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm from the beginning."
"The Phantoms belonged to the 106th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (TRS) of the Alabama Air National Guard (ANG) at Birmingham and were led by Col. (later Maj. Gen.) James F. Jim Brown. Their journey to the war zone may have been the longest nonstop flight made by operational warplanes until that time, requiring 16 air-to-air refuelings and spanning 8,000 nautical miles in 15.5 hours. The Phantom has a roomy cockpit but this was a real challenge to comfort, Brown said later."
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)As with post #14, I too would like to see a source cited for 15+ tons/day of meth use.
Johnson20
(315 posts)to the use of any meth, though I think it could be possible in a few instances.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)It's certainly possible-- lots of new drugs were being tested on soldiers by the end of the war by all of the major players.
However, 15 tons per day by US airmen alone is an absurd statement; and having recently read Watson's 'The Movement Toward Air Autonomy' which made mention of meth being used on an individual squadron by squadron basis in the 9th Air Force only, I'm thinking the poster is simply making stuff u.... embellishing a truth for the sake of melodrama.
Johnson20
(315 posts)hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Very busy.
Brettongarcia
(2,262 posts)Why bother to bust it ... when doctors are prescibing it to our kids, all the time? Adoral (SP?), very prescribed for attention disorders, is an amphetamine cocktail, apparently.
In partial recognition of this, courts, lawyers sometimes refer to illegal use of such substances as "self-medication" efforts. Since such substances have a legitimate medical use.
boppers
(16,588 posts)" It is a brand-name psychostimulant medication composed of racemic amphetamine aspartate monohydrate, racemic amphetamine sulfate, dextroamphetamine saccharide, and dextroamphetamine sulfate, which are all amphetamine salts."
Brettongarcia
(2,262 posts)Used for attention disorder: helps you focus!
Maybe the biggest illegal prescription on the streets. After another "upper": Viagra.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)RainDog
(28,784 posts)Yavin4
(35,445 posts)That would be interesting.
The Doctor.
(17,266 posts)arbusto_baboso
(7,162 posts)What will happen to all the little mom-and-pop meth labs here in the U.S., I ask, if Mexico is allowed to flood our country with its cheaper product? What will all the trailer dwellers in San Bernardino County, California DO for a living?
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)I think maybe the trailer dwellers will have to switch to rattlesnake farming.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)With apologies to Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Thanks for the thread, ellisonz.
WheelWalker
(8,956 posts)ellisonz
(27,711 posts)Photo: A Mexican soldier stands guard Thursday over barrels of methamphetamine and other chemicals found on a farm. Credit: Ulises Ruiz Basurto / EPA
WheelWalker
(8,956 posts)expatriate2mex
(148 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)for 14.9 tons of Meth to flood the market in the coming months.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)Everything I know about meth I learned from Breaking Bad, which is why I'm asking.
In the TV show, the smallest amount I recall being mentioned is a "'teenth," which I assume is one-sixteenth of an ounce (or less than two grams). That seems to be enough to get two or three people roasted.
If that is correct, then there are 16 "teenths" in an ounce, 256 "teenths" in a pound, 512,000 "teenths" in a ton, and 7.68 million "teenths" in this seized shipment.
Or about enough to get the entire city of Albuquerque, New Mexico high for two weeks.
So first, are my guesses correct? Second, is my math correct?
And third... how much of this crap are people smoking? Does this represent a years' worth of American consumption, a month's... or two weeks for Albuquerque?