Mexican ‘Superlabs’ Are Pumping The US Full Of Cheap Meth

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Tim Pearce on September 27, 2018

The price of an ounce of black market meth in Oklahoma has dropped roughly 400 percent since 2012, after Mexican “superlabs” began pumping out massive amounts of the drug.

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents were buying illegal methamphetamines off the black market in 2012 for roughly $1,100 an ounce. Since then, the price has dropped considerably and agents are able to purchase an ounce of meth for $250 to $450, DEA special agent in charge of Oklahoma, Richard Salter, told CNN.

“That's as cheap as I have ever seen methamphetamine my entire career,” Salter said. The price of meth has dropped largely because meth “superlabs” in Mexico are producing hundreds of pounds of methamphetamines every day and smuggling it illegally into the U.S.

Deaths from meth overdoses have risen from 140 deaths in 2012 to 335 in 2016, according to the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics.

“There's so much attention — not just in Oklahoma, but nationwide — on the opioid crisis,” Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics spokesman Mark Woodward told CNN. “But our single most deadly individual drug is methamphetamine.”

Meth use in Oklahoma has been rising steadily as federal and state governments have focused more on fighting another deadly drug: opioids.

The Trump administration has ramped up federal efforts to curb the amount of illegal opioids available. In August, the DEA finalized new regulations on opioid manufacturers to ensure they produce only enough painkillers to fill legitimate medical need.

A June study suggested that opioid abuse results in the death of 20 percent of young adults in America.

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Whenever I think of Meths and the USA, I think of this, can't think why

Joking aside, I think that the War on Drugs was a mistake. The two biggest causes of drug-related deaths are due to the purity and strength of the drug. The other problem with illegal drugs is it makes money for gangs and thus fuels crime and gang warfare.
Thus, whilst I don't like drugs or prostitution, the best solutions are harm reduction and legalisation. Just look at gambling and Las Vegas. By having legal gambling establishments, the mob was pushed out by far more competitive private industry.

If drugs and prostitution were legal then:
1) There would be no profits for gangs or mobs thus helping end both.
2) Overdosing and the harmful effects of impurities would be removed.
3) Drug and human trafficking would be prevented.
4) Overcrowding of prisons and the burden of the cost to the taxpayer would end.
5)The expensive and highly ineffective War On Drugs would end thus saving taxpayers money.
6) Drugs and prostitution can be taxed.

With the advent of the E-Vapour Machine, many of those illegal drugs could be far more safely consumed.
Saint Thomas Aquinas explained that you can not legislate against the custom of the people. Whilst we may think the person seeking consolation in the arms of a prostitute or drugs foolish and rather he didn't do it, we have to accept that people are going to do those things. Where laws multiply, lawessness abounds.

The only way to end Vice* is though charater building, be that via Christanity or Philosophy. The habit of taking snuff (i.e. snorting dried powdered tobbacco up the nose) was not ended via the government passing legislation against it, but that it became unfashionable to do so, and ended up being regarded as a filthy habit.

*Drug, alcohol, and gambling addictions or prostitution.