Tennessee: Arrest of UTM Professor For Cooking Methamphetamine Results in Suspension

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Brent Cox, a University of Tennessee at Martin professor, has been put on indefinite suspension from the University as a result of his arrest for manufacturing methamphetamine. Acting on a search warrant, police went to Cox’s home at 444 Cades Atwood Road outside Milan on Tuesday night and found Cox and five other people along …..Read More

West Virginia: Boone County Career and Technical Center to remain closed pending meth clean up

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West Virginia:  The Boone County Career and Technical Center, which was closed on July 22nd because of meth contamination, does not expect to reopen to students by the start of the new school year on August 22, 2011. The West Virginia trade school, which tested positive for meth residue earlier this summer, is not expected …..Read More

West Virginia: Board of Education closes Boone trade school contaminated by methamphetamine

The Boone Career and Technical Center trade school has been closed by the West Virginia Board of Education based on meth testing conducted by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. The DHHR conducted meth tests at the school after West Virginia state police began an investigation that involved two staff members. Police …..Read More

Tn Governor Haslam approves electronic tracking to address meth epidemic

On June 6, 2011, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed a new anti-meth law that includes a host of changes to the state’s meth laws. Some of those changes include tougher penalties for those who make meth with children present and mandatory minimum fines for meth offenders. The new law also allocates methlab clean-up money to …..Read More

Tennessee Governor Haslam announces new meth law

A press release by TN Governor Bill Haslam on June 6, 2011 announced his approval of a new anti-meth law in the state of Tennessee. Haslam Signs Comprehensive Anti-Meth Bill into Law Announces Funding for Meth Lab Cleanup and Communication Campaign Against Meth Manufacture and Use Greeneville  – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam today signed into …..Read More

Tennessee Methamphetamine Vehicle Title Legislation: What you should know

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Tennessee motor vehicles that have been used to make meth will have “methamphetamine vehicle” added to their title, if Senate bill SB 0266 becomes law. According to the bill, any law enforcement agency that impounds a vehicle that was used to make meth, will have to report that vehicle to the department of revenue within …..Read More

West Virginia: Senators fail to pass pseudoephedrine prescription law

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West Virginia Senators failed to pass a pseudoephedrine prescription law last Wednesday, despite testimony from 50 state troopers who supported HB2946 and despite the bill’s passage by the House of Delegates (77-23), during the previous week. The bill was killed in the Senate by a tie vote of 16 – 16, leaving the state without …..Read More

West Virginia: Pseudoephedrine prescription bill headed for Senate

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West Virginia: The House of Delegates and the Senate Judiciary Committee have both approved a bill that will make pseudoephedrine a prescription drug.   The prescription pseudoephedrine law will now head to the full Senate. Opponents of the legislation, not surprisingly, are pseudoephedrine manufacturers and the retailers association who are profiting from the sale of …..Read More

Tennessee meth lab clean up: Federal funds are gone

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Tennessee: Meth lab clean up fund money from federal funds that helped the state clean up the toxic trash left by Tennessee meth makers have been depleted. This week, Tennessee law enforcement agencies learned that the federal money they receive to clean up meth labs is gone and they will have to find another way …..Read More

Casper Wyoming: 1445 S. Jackson Street A Meth Lab Home Story

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In 2007, Albuquerque, New Mexico resident Licia Henderson found what she thought would be the perfect home in Casper, Wyoming. It had two bedrooms, hard wood floors, and new carpeting, according to the realtor’s pictures. It wasn’t a large home, but Licia, a single woman, didn’t require a lot of space. All she needed was …..Read More