Abandoned meth lab homes catching on fire don’t surprise me

Millions of homes across America are either in foreclosure or being threatened with foreclosure. At least a million of those have also been used as meth labs, according to estimates by meth lab cleanup contractors. All of which has lead to vacant homes in neighborhoods all over the U.S. In the case of meth lab homes, those homes are being left abandoned because the owners Read more

Making Psuedephedrine products in to prescription drugs won’t solve the meth lab problem

Representative John Mizuno of Hawaii is asking legislators to make cold and allergy products containing pseudoephedrine available by prescription only. Mizuno hopes that by changing the classification of Sudafed and similar products to Schedule III drugs, that he will cut off the drugs that meth cooks need to Read more

Why meth lab disclosure laws don’t work and how they should be changed

Studies about the toxic dangers that exist inside of meth lab homes have been conducted by the U.S. government for over a decade, yet laws to protect home buyers and renters are not mandated in every state, nor are they working to protect home buyers.

State laws enacted to help protect home buyers from buying homes are based on a seller’s knowledge and their honesty, both of which leave room for error. If a seller Read more

Lincoln County Minnesota: Meth lab news for home buyers

Lincoln County, Minnesota has figured out a way to deal with the high cost of decontaminating meth lab homes. They are going to make property owners responsible for paying for the cleanup. You could do what my son did in 2004 and buy a toxin-filled home and be left holding the bill for the cleanup, despite the fact that you had nothing to do with the contamination.

“The meth lab ordinance basically puts the responsibility of clean-up on the owner of the property,” said Olsen. “It protects the taxpayers from having to pay for it.” – Robert Olsen, environmental officer for Lincoln County

While I want to alert everyone about Lincoln County, MN about what’s going to happen to property owners there, you need to know that Read more

Are the rolling meth labs in New York a sign of things to come ?

The meth lab problem in the U.S. is making its way eastward and its doing it quickly. Why? Because it can. When meth cooks put “shake and bake” meth labs inside vehicles, the meth lab problem can move in to a community within a matter of seconds, minutes, or hours. Mobile meth labs, also called rolling meth labs, have now been discovered in central New York.

New York’s Senator Schumer recently asked the DEA to put more drug enforcement agents on the border between Read more

Senator Joe Biden has an opinion about meth labs that may surprise you

If Senator Joe Biden and Senator Obama win the presidential election in January, the citizens of the U.S. will have someone on their side in the White House. Biden has a long history of standing behind legislation to combat drugs in the U.S. and he is keenly aware of the crime and health dangers that clandestine meth labs present to Read more

Did CA Shafter High School teacher Jeff Ryan intend to make meth ?

Jeff Ryan, a high school teacher in Shafter, CA bought matches and pseudoephedrine. He also downloaded a recipe to make meth from the Internet. Prosecutors say that’s because he intended to make methamphetamine. Ryan says he bought the ingredients for a class project, one he says would attempt to make matches that could be struck anywhere. His lawyer says he is telling the truth, touting his record as a good teacher and his lack of a motive to make methamphetamine.

To his lawyer, I can come up with at least one motivating factor. It is spelled M-O-N-E-Y . Meth is selling for record prices, since the the U.S. and Mexico began putting the clamps on meth distribution and manufacturing.

Proposed meth lab cleanup legislation in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio is unfair to property owners

If Cuyahoga Falls city leaders have their way, property owners there will pick up the entire tab for meth labs. At a recent meeting about the meth lab problem there, Assistant Law Director Hope Jones told residents that they are considering making property owners responsible for paying the expenses incurred by the police department, meth lab testing fees, and the building department’s cost to vacate the property, in addition to the meth lab decontamination cleanup that are already placing financial burdens on property owners there and across the U.S.

Jones also told attendees of the meeting that the average cost of cleaning their meth lab home would set Read more

New England sleeps while meth traffickers watch and wait

According to the DEA, the demand for methamphetamine in Massachusetts comes from gay male communities in Boston and Cape Cod. Although, the demand for meth is low in Massachusetts, the DEA sees a demand for meth that is migrating in to the general population. Currently, meth is coming in to the New England area through Read more

California realtors put home sellers and home buyers at risk with new buyer incentives

The slow housing market in California has prompted some of its realtors to offer a new incentive program to prospective home buyers. Buyers interested in California homes are being offered the opportunity to Read more

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