Methathetamine, or meth as it's known on the street is one of the most dangerous street drugs- and it's also the easiest to make and the most readily available. This article is not only appropriate for family reading, it's important. Every parent should tell their kids about this.
Meth is lethal. A single dose can be smoked, snorted or injected, and leaves the user "high" for up to 48 hours. It it also one of the few drugs that shows both mental and physical effects. Meth will cause severe hair loss, it causes your teeth will fall out and will give you large scars and cuts on your face and body.
Meth is easy to make. You can find hundreds of recipies on google. If you search for meth recipies and you get 175,000+ hits. You can make it out of drug-store bought ingredients and use things like strainers and cheap plastic multipurpose tubing to refine it. Anybody who lives anywhere near a drug mart can do it.
For every pound you make of meth, you create 10 pounds of highly toxic and even volatile waste. Not only do meth labs put the maker to use, they put family members, neighbours and law enforcement officers at risk. In 2002, a man who had a meth lab in his car was driving to a dump to get rid of some jars full of ammonia and his car exploded, killing him and severely injuring his wife. Later in 2003, an officer was severely burned when he opened a jar he believed to be empty that contained meth waste.
Meth is cheap, easy to make and exteremly powerful. It's swept small cities and towns all over North America. It's killed thousands and shattered the lives of many more. The best way to protect yourslef? Good old fashioned no.
