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While they are training people to figure out what this is, tractor-trailers are zipping by them loaded with 'ice' from superlabs in Mexico making their daily deliveries.

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The new building includes a 2,200-square foot laboratory that will enable DEA chemists to teach students how to synthesize controlled substances

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"Methamphetamine wreaks havoc on its users and their families, and clandestine labs can devastate neighborhoods," said Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey. "We have had great success in reducing the number of small domestic meth labs over the past few years. This new facility will allow us to train more of our partners in law enforcement, so they can continue that success while protecting themselves from becoming victims of the toxic environment the labs create."

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The new building includes a 2,200-square foot laboratory that will enable DEA chemists to teach students how to synthesize controlled substances

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Are you saying marijuana is special or something?  Meth has medically accepted benifits in this country and is surely more deserving of the leeway you preach per the rationale behind existing law.

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Are you saying you want meth legalized or just making noise?  More deserving than what?  Pot?  Get real.  Get roundtable.

  Methamphetamine has medical benefits for an extremely small percentage of patients who suffer rare but debilitating medical conditions such a acute catatonia and/or narcolepsy.  Abbott Pharmaceutical company is licensed to produce Desoxyn (a Methamphetamine product) legally in accordance with the law. 

Ice isn't really medicine the way people use it--    =

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xbrutalx233 said:
Any drug where you claw away your face.... I've done meth, seen meth damage, and have family in jail... I would never touch that shit again with a 20 foot pole... Marijuana on the other hand is by far the safest choice of any mind altering substance out there.... Legalize pot and take the fucking violators of this fuck-tarded law out of jail.

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:mydrugisbetterthanyourdrug: I'm sorry you had a bad experience that involved this particular substance.  Your experience doesn't account for everyone else's experience with said drug.  I myself used off and on for years without any hindrance in my job performance, family life, or any other aspect of my daily activities.  Don't demonize a substance just because YOU or someone YOU might know can't handle their drugs properly.  I would also highly advise you to look up the brand name Desoxyn and do some reading either through wiki or Google.  Be well.

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legalize meth <-- 'nuff said.

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The relevant question is whether our society would be better served if meth was manufactured, distributed, bought and sold legally.  The answer is yes.  There are two related but separate reasons why ending the drug war is critical.  First, a free society requires that the drug war end.  I refer to this argument as the freedom argument.  Second, the consequences of ending the drug war would yield economic and other benefits which would greatly benefit our society.  I refer to this argument as the consequentialist argument.   

Most readers will not be persuaded by the freedom argument.  This fact is disturbing to me.  In fact, many of the issues which plague our world will persist unless and until people come to respect the principles embodied in terms such as individual responsibility, self ownership and freedom.  These concepts are what our country was founded upon and the very reason why America prospered.  Now, they are given mere lip service if they are considered at all.  If you shrug your shoulders and brush off the freedom argument, you should be ashamed of yourself.  Whether you realize it or not, you are the problem.   

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In the mid-1960s, just before the government declared war on amphetamines, the average user swallowed his pills, which were of medicinal purity and potency. Snorting and smoking stimulants was almost unheard of, and very few users injected intravenously. Today, 40 years later, snorting, smoking, and injecting methamphetamines of unpredictable potency and dubious purity has become the norm—with all the dreadful health consequences. If the current scene illustrates how the government is winning the war on drugs, I'd hate to see what losing looks like.  See www.slate.com/id/2123838 ; August 3, 2005.

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We know certain things for sure.  If meth was no longer illegal:

1. All dangerous clandestine meth labs in residential neighborhoods would close;

2. All dangerous street gangs would be out of the meth business;

3. Every dime currently spent on meth prohibition could be spent on real crime;

4. Meth addicts would have no legal disincentive to seek help;

5. The manufacture of meth would be safe and produce a consistent product; and

6. Toxic waste from meth production would be safely disposed. 

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Why all the time and money, the synth is not hard.  If they are chemists they can do it.

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You gotta remember they are stupid cops, not chemists. I assume their logic is that if the cops are intimately familiar with the process they would be able to better understand how to stay safe, but by that logic they should make all cops do all drugs so when they come across somebody intoxicated by a drug they will know what its like and act accordingly

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Why all the time and money, the synth is not hard.  If they are chemists they can do it.

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You gotta remember they are stupid cops, not chemists. I assume their logic is that if the cops are intimately familiar with the process they would be able to better understand how to stay safe, but by that logic they should make all cops do all drugs so when they come across somebody intoxicated by a drug they will know what its like and act accordingly

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Are you saying you want meth legalized or just making noise?  More deserving than what?  Pot?  Get real.  Get roundtable.

  Methamphetamine has medical benefits for an extremely small percentage of patients who suffer rare but debilitating medical conditions such a acute catatonia and/or narcolepsy.  Abbott Pharmaceutical company is licensed to produce Desoxyn (a Methamphetamine product) legally in accordance with the law. 

Ice isn't really medicine the way people use it--    =

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