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A bank executive earning a quarter of a million dollar annual salary and living in a $6000/month manhattan appartment decided to turn his penthouse into a meth lab. I miss the good old days of the 1980s. Back then bank exectuives were more responsible. They'd use cocaine instead.

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Contrary to the stereotypes, producing meth requires university level organic chemistry know-how. Most producers of hard drugs are pretty well educated.

If you can afford a $6000/ month apartment, why not use cocaine?

Contrary to the stereotypes, producing meth requires university level organic chemistry know-how. Most producers of hard drugs are pretty well educated.

Every dumbfuck non-highschool graduate busted every week in Alabama for making meth in their basement disagrees with you.

Contrary to the stereotypes, producing meth requires university level organic chemistry know-how. Most producers of hard drugs are pretty well educated.

The meth producers I've run into (including relations who have kicked the habit) weren't University educated by any means. Of course, they were mostly producing for their own use.

It's amazing how organic chemistry suddenly becomes a weekend hobby for so many when it gets you unbelievably high.

Contrary to the stereotypes, producing meth requires university level organic chemistry know-how. Most producers of hard drugs are pretty well educated.

Really? When I was on the volunteer fire department our hasmat team got called out twice to two different meth labs in our trailer park and once for a moble one in a crashed bronco

Yeah, it takes quite a bit of training to make some drugs. For example, synthetic THC or even mescaline or LSD, but meth seems to be easy enough for your local trailer park skinhead to produce in profitable quantities and at acceptable (to a tweaker) purity.

There's probably at least one meth lab in my neighborhood. I live mostly around blue/collar or minimum wage people, so I don't think University education was that high on their list.

Meth labs in Alberta are huge in rural areas...and you don't have a bunch of University grads going back to Butt-fcuk, Alberta to produce...

Back in Oregon people were more worried about their kids wandering into Marajuana fields (at least in the part I lived in), due to the traps put out to deter tresspassers.
The local police wouldnt do squat about the fields because they (and most of the government officials in the area) were the ones smoking the stuff.
I will always remember the day when the local newspaper published a story about a Korean war vetran who donned a 'non-working' flamethrower and toasted two of the smaller fields before they caught him.

I think marijuana is a much less dangerous drug than even alcohol.

Meth is not at all in the same category, and I'm glad I missed that 'trend' as a kid.

I think marijuana is a much less dangerous drug than even alcohol.

Meth is not at all in the same category, and I'm glad I missed that 'trend' as a kid.

Weed may be just about harmless, but walking into a field of it and getting hit with pellets from a shotgun shell wired to a rat trap because some dude wanted to protect his illegal crops can still suck. They should just legalize the shit.

Back in Oregon people were more worried about their kids wandering into Marajuana fields (at least in the part I lived in), due to the traps put out to deter tresspassers.


Just curious, are you talking about the Tiller area?

Just curious, are you talking about the Tiller area?

I would guess maybe Medford or Ashland-ish

My mistake, I was confusing meth with amphetamines.

Just curious, are you talking about the Tiller area?

Seaside/Astoria.

Seaside/Astoria.

I'm starting to think all of Oregon is just one big pot farm.

I'm starting to think all of Oregon is just one big pot farm.

Welcome to the Great Northwest! :D