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[SmarterthanYou]

licenses and mandatory waiting periods for 2 liter bottles of soda.

new way to manufacture meth

TULSA, Okla. - This is the new formula for methamphetamine: a two-liter soda bottle, a few handfuls of cold pills and some noxious chemicals. Shake the bottle and the volatile reaction produces one of the world's most addictive drugs.

Only a few years ago, making meth required an elaborate lab — with filthy containers simmering over open flames, cans of flammable liquids and hundreds of pills. The process gave off foul odors, sometimes sparked explosions and was so hard to conceal that dealers often "cooked" their drugs in rural areas.

But now drug users are making their own meth in small batches using a faster, cheaper and much simpler method with ingredients that can be carried in a knapsack and mixed on the run. The "shake-and-bake" approach has become popular because it requires a relatively small number of pills of the decongestant pseudoephedrine — an amount easily obtained under even the toughest anti-meth laws that have been adopted across the nation to restrict large purchases of some cold medication.

"Somebody somewhere said 'Wait this requires a lot less pseudoephedrine, and I can fly under the radar,'" said Mark Woodward, spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control.

An Associated Press review of lab seizures and interviews with state and federal law enforcement agents found that the new method is rapidly spreading across the nation's midsection and is contributing to a spike in the number of meth cases after years of declining arrests.

The new formula does away with the clutter of typical meth labs, and it can turn the back seat of a car or a bathroom stall into a makeshift drug factory. Some addicts have even made the drug while driving.

The pills are crushed, combined with some common household chemicals and then shaken in the soda bottle. No flame is required.

 

[WinterBorn]

A young girl in Alabama found a soda bottle in her yard and drank from it. Her throat and esophagus was horribly burned. She will probably never speak and may never be able to eat normal food.

It was a disgarded bottle from a "Shake & Bake" meth manufacturer.

 

[Cancel5]

licenses and mandatory waiting periods for 2 liter bottles of soda.

new way to manufacture meth

Damn, American ingenuity at it, again!

Your post was seriously funny, though, not the meth part, but your comments.

 

[evince]

The interesting part is this is taking the dealer money out of the equation.

These methods can only generate a small user amount.

The discarded bottles are being found all over the midwest roads.

Its very sad that some kid got ahold of one.

Its even sader that this will very likely happen again.

 

[Damocles]

licenses and mandatory waiting periods for 2 liter bottles of soda.

new way to manufacture meth

I knew this would be the next step when I read about cold-cooking.

Now we either make everything illegal or give up on enforcing criminal law for this and start helping people.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

I knew this would be the next step when I read about cold-cooking.

Now we either make everything illegal or give up on enforcing criminal law for this and start helping people.

or the libs will continue to follow the england way of things and start requiring permits to buy kitchen cutlery.

 

[charver]

or the libs will continue to follow the england way of things and start requiring permits to buy kitchen cutlery.

I hide these under my bed.

Don't tell anyone.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

I hide these under my bed.

Don't tell anyone.

my friend, i hate to tell you this, but under the bed is the first place they look after raiding your house because somebody reported a cardboard cutout holding a cardboard printed gun.

 

[charver]

my friend, i hate to tell you this, but under the bed is the first place they look after raiding your house because somebody reported a cardboard cutout holding a cardboard printed gun.

That may well be the case but it throws them off the scent of the 22 foot fish knife i have buried in the back garden.

I'm not daft, you know.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

That may well be the case but it throws them off the scent of the 22 foot fish knife i have buried in the back garden.

I'm not daft, you know.

good call.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I guess it's basically impossible to stop the flow of meth now that it can be manufactured easily on a user level.

 

[DamnYankee]

The interesting part is this is taking the dealer money out of the equation.....

I guess it's basically impossible to stop the flow of meth now that it can be manufactured easily on a user level.

Two good points. It will be interesting to watch a good percentage of America if not the world fry its brains away.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Two good points. It will be interesting to watch a good percentage of America if not the world fry its brains away.

I still doubt many people are going to try meth. The occurrence of this method probably isn't going to dramatically increase usage.

And meth isn't actually a neurotoxin unless you overdose on it.

 

[DamnYankee]

I still doubt many people are going to try meth. The occurrence of this method probably isn't going to dramatically increase usage.

And meth isn't actually a neurotoxin unless you overdose on it.

When I was a kid we had to sign a paper to buy glue, because kids were squirting it in a bag and sniffing that. They also tried to smoke catnip, oregano and rope. There will be lots of kids doing meth this way.