#meth labs

[alleycat4eva]

I have only ever been shot at in my home country. I have only ever witnessed -in person- people shoot each other in my country. I have only hidden from gunfire in my country.

 I have seen towns washed out, flooded, gone so many times. I have seen cities crumpled, rubble in the streets, and been driven through flames that consume everything in sight.

 I have seen the sick, known the sick -the infected, chronic, physically and/or mentally ill-  that die because of their illness, in my country. 

I have lived in houses with rotted floors and sagging walls. I have slept in beds infested, in homes under siege. 

I have lived in towns where no one asks why the sonic booms rattle windows anymore. Went to school, passing by vehicles made for war. I have smelt the sickly sweet smell of forbidden labs, the fecund savor of rotten bodies. 

This is not poetry. This is not prose.

This is the reality.

[mapsontheweb]

Meth Labs by US County, 2013.

[biositecleanup]

Dangers of Living near Meth Labs | Biosite Cleanup

Methamphetamine, produced in meth labs is a synthetic drug ‘cooked’ using dangerous chemicals and exposure to it can be quite hazardous to human health.

Unlike many common drugs found on the street, Methamphetamine is a synthetic drug which is ‘cooked’ using several dangerous chemicals and involves complicated processes.

[thelaughbutton]

Florida Man runs for President on “Meth Lab” based platform The current presidential contest has been the most divisive in modern American history. The only candidates people seem to hate more than their own is everyone else’s.

[biocleaning9]

A methamphetamine laboratory is an illicit operation that has the apparatus and chemicals needed to produce the powerful stimulant methamphetamine. (See list of products and equipment.) These laboratories vary dramatically in size and output. Large laboratories, known as super labs, produce 10 pounds or more of the drug per production cycle. Much smaller laboratories--sometimes called box labs--produce as little as an ounce or less of the drug and are small enough to fit in a box or backpack.