Good haul in Mexico
This will set things back a bit -- from
The Miami Herald/Associated Press:
Military finds one of Mexico's largest meth labs
The Mexican Navy gave reporters a firsthand look Tuesday at what they described as one of the largest methamphetamine labs ever found in the country, with enough ephedrine to produce more than 40 tons of the drug.
The smell of chemical solvents was overwhelming at the remote mountaintop site in the northern state of Sinaloa, where Navy personnel on patrol last week stumbled across an enormous holding tank they initially thought might be used to water a marijuana plantation.
Instead, the tank fed water to a pair of enormous sheds where sailors found 49,640 liters (13,000 gallons) of ephedrine, a chemical used to make methamphetamine. That is enough to produce 40.2 metric tons of the drug, or about 309 million individual doses.
Meth is nasty stuff -- there is a lot of that up here and it is patently obvious when someone is taking it. They look like shit and act crazy. The more of this crap removed from the streets the better.
I keep wondering why the Federal government is not legalizing Marijuana. The amount of tax they could receive is huge and it would completely dismantle a lot of the organized crime in the US, Canada and Mexico. Makes you wonder who is in the pocket of the organized criminals...
Posted by DaveH at June 17, 2009 11:25 AM