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
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
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 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
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
Police arrested two men, who were residents of the Liberty Lodge Drug and Alcohol Recovery Center in LaVergne, Tennessee for setting up a meth lab in room 143, after being alerted to it by managers of the drug rehabilitation center. The building, which once operated as the Driftwood Inn and the Lifetime Recovery Center, has …..Read More
David Parnell. a former meth addict from TN, tried to commit suicide by shooting himself, when his wife threatened to leave him and take their 7 children with them. He survived his suicide attempt but still craved methamphetamine for a year. Parnell had been a meth addict for 14 years. He is now touring the …..Read More
Several months have passed, since I was first contacted by Rhonda Holt from Winchester, TN, and my most recent conversation with her was distressing. Despite all of what they have gone through, they still have a very steep hill to climb before they can see over the mountain of debt and health problems they’re facing …..Read More
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August 2, 2009: ABC World News Tonight featured the Holt family from Winchester, TN, who have all suffered health effects from living in a contaminated meth lab home. If you’ve been following this blog, you will recognize the Holts , who have been in contact with me since they found out they were living in …..Read More
The TN Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a tax on illegal drugs was unconstitutional, because the “crack tax” is not a tax on “merchants, peddlers and privileges.” However, the court also ruled that the tax law did not violate protections against self-incrimination, which may allow them to develop a new tax on drugs that …..Read More
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