I love to search Google News for drug abuse information and today I searched on ‘Meth Labs’. I was amazed to find 1600 entries in google for the past few days alone…
Anyway, meth labs are extremely dangerous to run; explosive, a lot of toxic chemicals and chemical byproducts and can be contained in something as small as a suitcase. Did I mention they were illegal?
Most meth labs are found because of their peculiar smell so labs are usually located in remote areas although they have been found in apartments, houses and even hotel rooms – anywhere there is a way to heat a pot.
The latest means of production is a meth lab in a moving vehicle using the ‘one pot’ process or ’shake and bake’. The ingredients are mixed in a 2 liter soda bottle using lithium as a heat source – lithium heats up when in contact with water.
This method of production only makes small amounts of meth but has the advantage of diffusing the smell easily and making cleanup easy; by merely dumping the used soda bottle and toxic chemicals out the car window. And…a moving lab is harder for the police to raid.
But rapidly expanding gases produced when lithium and water mix may turn the soda bottle into a bomb if it is not ‘burped’.
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