I missed that from Wharfie, whom I also like. Thanks for the link back.
To the extent that meth exists in our world, it is a great tragedy. Dangerous to those who manufacture it as it is for those who use. And to everyone else.
When I worked in the field in Oregon, we had meth labs cropping up in backwoods camps, converted school buses on logging roads, and so forth. I've come up on a couple myself, and it always gave me a creepy feeling that somebody was pointing a gun at me.
A colleague found a bootleg pot farm and cabin in a meadow, which is now part of a wilderness area. He took the LEOs up to seize the crop, but it had been harvested. They left a message to vacate and remove the cabin. A month later it was still there so they blew it up with dynamite. When they did that my buddy, a Marine combat vet, stepped back into into a pungi stake pit but avoided being stuck.
As a realtor, my wife had to show a farm that was on the market. The barn appeared to be full of hay, but when you went in there was ONE bale of hay strapped to the window. The rest of the barn still had drip irrigation and grow lights for the pot farm that was there.
Nobody called my town the pot or meth capital of Oregon. There were other places much worse. Primarily near the California border.
At one time Alaska legalized pot, and there is a town called Tok. I found out that Tok refers to a marijuana cigarette, although I've never seen or used one. |
