Drug syndicate hid meth in Canadian maple syrup, canola oil bound for Down Under, authorities say

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[–]hfxB0oyA 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I thought meth was easy to make from stuff you can get at the drugstore. How come it's such a big export?

[–]QHEEBH[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, Meth-Lab-Go-BOOM is a possibility.

During 2001–2012, a total of 1,325 meth-related chemical incidents were reported in the five states (Louisiana, Oregon, Utah, New York, and Wisconsin).

During a 4,015 day period there were 1,325 incidents or about one incident every 3 or so days. Most of these were chemical incidents.

Now, if you expand from the five states to all states, in 2012 there were

"11,210. That’s the number of all the meth lab incidents that were reported in 2012 by the DEA."

So in 365 days, there were slightly more than 30 incidents per day in the US (slightly more than 1 per hour). And

"The State of Missouri is almost always the state with the highest amount of meth lab incidents. They reported 1,825 in total for 2012. In comparison, the State of Alaska reported just 1 incident."

and of course,

"Up to 35% of the burn patients that report to the emergency room are meth positive, even if they don’t indicate that they were using the drug in the initial interview."

Something bad happened if they were burned.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6433a4.htm

https://healthresearchfunding.org/18-fasinating-meth-lab-explosion-statistics/

It might be easy, but it's apparently dangerous.