Meth in the Evergreen State
The story of a 16-year-old who died from drinking "meth water" (the meth equivalent of bong water) got me to thinking about the meth problem in our state.
Within the city we don't see as much of a problem with meth. But in the rest of the state, the drug has long been a major issue. According to the drug resource site M-Files, Pierce County used to be one of the nation's top-3 "Meth capitals"). Luckily, our elected officials were able to employ some innovative techniques to lessen the problem considerably. Now other towns around the nation with meth epidemics are looking to copy our model.
But for those, such as myself, who wonder just how meth got so big. After all, according to an interview with Quentin Casey, meth expert Roger Lake - executive director of the Washington State Narcotics Investigators Association (WSNIA) - says the numbers skyrocketed almost overnight:
During the last years of Lake’s career, the state of Washington was hit hard by meth production and abuse. After California, Washington was the second state to experience a meth problem. Over a five year period starting in 1996, meth addiction increased by 240 per cent in Washington, he says.
In 1994, there were only 36 meth labs reported in the state. Four years later there were 349. By 1998, the number had reached 789 and in 2001 there are an astounding 2000 labs.
What caused the explosion? Here's a fantastic article that ran last year in Rolling Stone, which sheds light on the issue. It turns out the pharmaceutical industry blocked legislation that had the potential to pretty much wipe out the meth problem back in the mid-80's; because ephedrine is one of the key ingredients in meth, the companies did not want to hurt their bottom line by restricting how it was sold.
Just a little history. If any readers have further information on the meth problem in Washington State, I'd love to hear it...newer information on the topic is harder to come by.
That really asn't going to happen, the COC in Holland had a choice, it could go for homophile integration, that was on offer because of a dilution of trad Dutcher social values or it could continue along the lines of 'organized crime' the source of its funding,
it was a no brainer, drugs, pornography, prostitution, that was hard to give up in the same way FARC in Colombia would be unable to give it up if they were bunged 40 senate seats as a peace offering.
Similarly the gays dudes who were opposed to pedophlia in London and Amsterdam were destroyed by orgs which had a big advantage over NAMBLA, they were tuned into the mobsters, and they were crimed up.
So the regular gay dudes who were saying kids were off-limits were 'not queer enough' and the sick fucks took over the show.
You can't ban stuff if a few dutchers can make it in Haiti or Russia, you just can't. The primary market for date rape drug production is the sex and pornography trade in Europe.
The rohypnol techniques came into being because there was a shortage of pimps.
"In addition to the direct sea connection between Finland and Estonia, smuggling takes place from
Estonia via Sweden and the Ă…land Islands as well as via Haparanda and Tornio to Finland.
Amphetamines and buprenorphine are smuggled via Estonia and Russia, and the first signs of the
transfer of sorting and packing of synthetic drugs to Finland have emerged this year with the
discovery of a Rohypnol factory. In addition, smuggling routes from Russia to Finland through the
eastern frontier and Murmansk are noteworthy, the latter especially for smuggling doping substances
to Northern Finland and Norway. (Hietaniemi 2004)"
I won't bother with the url, the deal is this, that gay & sex politics in Europe is for heavy hitters.
They could also deploy money in a way the Mafia families in New York City couldn't, they are a bit like major league bikers, the Baltic bikers if they need a half a million to buy weapons can do it with a bucket in the clubhouse.
The COC affiliates (not all Dutch obviously) ended up running a lot of stuff. If you get a TV station, you are in major league politics.
The Canadian strip club owners before they began threatening ministers with death, were moving towards TV, radio, 'content', and exploiting markets in Cyprus, Japan etc. all this via Romania.
To eradicate methamphetamine, you have to eradicate it, I can ban opium production in Wa tomorrow, ok, there is none, so where the smack come from? There will always be a way.
So out of two million doses Rohypnol for the sex trade, the Finns sent a few thou to gay clubs in Florida.
That spillage is because presuably a few gays in Florida are connected to their ultra-hard cousins in Europe, gay politics in Europe could be an anti-tank grenade lobbed at a competitor's brothel.
Gays can noe support a synthetic drug industry without needing regular direct markets.
That is not knocking regular queers, they're mostly joe ordinary, the same way FARC were probably peasants once, it is what it turns into that is the final deal.
To eradicate meth you got to eradicate meth production, not in Oklahoma, but anywhere they have a smart dude and a ex-commie facility which can be crated about.
Tazia