Wed, Feb 07 2007

Candied methamphetamine

It looks like the old advice for children about not taking candy from strangers needs to be updated to include other substances, now that drug dealers are trying to lure younger customers with flavored meth.

I guess the money factor is as much an addiction as any other for a person who sells drugs in order to get their own drugs. But when greedy people go actively after children for profit any sympathy we all ever had for their own drug-induced plight is cancelled out by their low tactics. These people are already putting children in enough danger by running a meth lab in the first place. The labs, full of hazardous chemicals and ripe for explosions, often house several families, including little children who are at the mercy of the greedy adults. Many lab locations are booby-trapped and full of loaded guns within reach of babies and small children. Older children are often forced into the meth-making process itself.

We often see news video of raids on labs that are in isolated national forests or in rural mountainous areas. But crooks are increasingly bold enough to run their filthy operations in or near towns or suburbs. Take a look at the DEA's National Clandestine Laboratory Register and you might be surprised at some of the addresses where authorities have reported finding drug labs of one kind or another. And now the crooks want more kids than ever in their grasp, so they're candy-coating their poison.

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