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I grew up on the Oklahoma/Texas border. I helped clean up a couple meth labs that blew up in our area. One was in a trailer, back half of the place had to be gutted out. One was in a hotel room, floor above it had to be gutted out too. I've never seen or heard of a drug that does what that Meth does, to people or to property. BTW, that was about 16 years ago... It has gotten 'extremely' worse.
The problems with meth is the labs are mobile, easy to setup and cheap... Plus everything in that area is remote. Some areas don't have Sheriffs or Police. The housing (trailers) in some areas is cheaper than some people have ever heard of or thought possible, cheaper than our electric bills. People don't have the money to buy any half ass decent drug and meth is the cheap alternative for poor people.
In that area as well, people go to jail, they get out and the cycle repeats. Live in the same house, same people around, same friends and in no time they're back on the funk and if they ever got hooked on meth, almost certain they will setup a lab or get on meth again, and steal to get the money to do it. The cycle doesn't end unless they choose to change everything about the life they live, location, people, etc. And when you're dirt ass poor, that doesn't happen every easily.
I'm sure the above was a big reason for the law...
I would never support this for any other drug, but I do for meth and for sure they need to figure out something in that area, cause meth is completely out of control.
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