meth from Mexico.
Mexican drug gangs boost meth sales with new methods
By Mica Rosenberg
MEXICO CITY | Fri Nov 5, 2010 11:13pm IST
(Reuters) - Mexican drug cartels are sidestepping laws that target the production of methamphetamines by importing new kinds of input chemicals, a blow to U.S. and Mexican efforts to halt the thriving trade.
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It is also bad news for anti-drug efforts in the United States, where officials hailed a temporary decline in meth availability after Mexico outlawed pseudoephedrine, a chief input chemical used to make the drug, in 2007.
Meth flooded back onto U.S. streets in 2009, at even lower prices, U.S. officials say, as innovating Mexican cartels made their meth with harder-to-detect common chemicals like phenylacetic acid, used in food flavorings and perfumes.
Meth flooded back onto U.S. streets in 2009, at even lower prices, U.S. officials say, as innovating Mexican cartels made their meth with harder-to-detect common chemicals like phenylacetic acid, used in food flavorings and perfumes.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2010/11/05/idINIndia-52704920101105
And Mexican meth is stronger and more addictive than that made in mom and pop labs in the United States.
Meth purity, potency up
Written by Clayton R. Norman
Sunday, 17 April 2011 17:38
Methamphetamine produced in Mexico is now more pure and more potent than it has been in a decade, the DEA reported last week.
Meth-producing drug cartels in Mexico have refined techniques for producing the drug, said Angela Walker, Senior Forensic Chemist at the DEA's South Central Laboratory, resulting in meth that may be almost 96 percent pure. And not only is the meth coming out of Mexico more pure, Walker told a group of drug and epidemiology researchers gathered in Scottsdale last week, the product is also stronger than it has been in ten years.
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Tombstone Marshal Billy Cloud, who has worked as an undercover narcotics detective, said the rising purity and strength of meth is a concern because of the drug's highly addictive qualities.
Besides the drug's long-term physical effects on users, which can include psychosis, heart problems and rotting teeth, Cloud said, it is also associated with burglaries, thefts and assaults.
http://www.theepitaph.com/news/9-crime/558-meth-purity-potency-up
Consequently making you go to a doctor or pharmacist to get cold medicine that actually works did little to stop the meth problem.
I agree that the violence in Mexico has spread into the U.S. I predict it will increase dramatically in the near future.
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