Mexico makes record drugs seizure

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Source: bbc

Mexican authorities say they have made their largest-ever seizure of chemicals used in the manufacturer of the synthetic drug methamphetamine.

A total of 37 tonnes were confiscated in two separate raids in different parts of the country.

Mexico, one of the world's leading producers of the drug, says the seizure represents a blow to organised crime.

Some 20 tonnes of the psycho-stimulant drug were found on a boat entering the Pacific Coast port of Manzanillo.


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[endless october]

1. the drug war is the reason meth is popular.

[Aragorn]

2. I disagree

The drug war is the reason meth is so expensive, drawing organized crime into the mix.

Meth specifically stimulates certain neurochemicals - better than caffeine for example - and thus is popular.

If it were legal the profit motive for organized crime would (mostly) go away.

Hey, with this logic, could organized crime be into health insurance?

BTW the RICO laws were used to attack certain insurance company practices about 10 years ago. Didn't do much good in the long run, but -

just sayin'

[John Q. Citizen]

5. Just like qualudes, meth is actually one of the few drugs that could be eliminated. The reason

it isn't is that big pharma makes billions on psuedo-ephedrine, which is necessary to produce meth.

[madokie]

14. I don't do meth but I sure liked qualudes

[Dreamer Tatum]

15. In no sense should meth ever be made legal, not ever nt

[Flaneur]

16. It already is legal. It's a Schedule II drug under the Controlled Substances Act

It's called Desoxyn. http://www.rxlist.com/desoxyn-drug.htm#

Indicated for--I'm not making this up--Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity and Exogenous Obesity.

[John Q. Citizen]

4. Have you ever done meth?

[thunder rising]

3. First, it was a gift. Second, it was a show of how much meth they make. How we gonna stop it?

[JDPriestly]

6. I should think that legalizing possession of small quantities of drugs

would make enforcement of drug trafficking far easier. First of all, users would be much more helpful to police if they did not have to fear being arrested for possession of small amounts.

[junior college]

7. Perhaps but I think legalizing meth in any amount would be a bad idea.

I don't personally know where to get meth but if I did, I would occasionally buy and use it and I have always regretted doing that.

[JDPriestly]

8. Very true. I have seen the effects of meth addictoin on famlies.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

11. Yes!

The effects are instantly noticeable, rapid and horrendous.

[ret5hd]

9. Do you think we should ask some alcoholics if we should criminalize alcohol?

[bhikkhu]

10. I hope it makes a dent

Meth is some seriously nasty stuff.

[BabbaTam]

12. meth

There was this saying back in the day; SPEED KILLS!

[Kali]

13. are there ever drug siezures

that aren't "record breaking"?

[Flaneur]

17. Face it: Our culture is a stimulant drug culture. We likes our speed.

A little more than a century ago, we were drinking Coca-Cola with real cocaine.

After we prohibited cocaine, along came the pharmaceutical companies with the amphetamines. We've been gobbling down speed, in form or another, ever since. Tons of it a year since the late 1950s. For weight loss, for anhedonia (lack of peppy happiness), for depression, now, paradoxically, for ADHD and associated disorders.

And then there's coffee. Pretty easy to get a caffeine fix just about anywhere, with a Starbucks on damned near every corner, and vending machines full of caffeinated colas, and convenience stores hawking tons of different energy drinks.

Just sayin'.

Maybe meth so devastates these people's lives because their lives are already devastated. I know people who have used meth for years and are quite successful. The key seems to be moderation and sparing use.