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Cops Form Meth Task Force

Last Update: 4/15 9:33 pm

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Cops call them home-made bombs. Tulsa police vow to stop the exploding problem of meth labs. So far this year, police have uncovered 71 labs. That’s almost double the number they found all last year. Add the 32 labs the Tulsa County Drug Task Force has uncovered, and the total tops 100. As FOX 23’s Douglas Clark reports, officers from several divisions are now forming a meth lab task force to combat the problem.

“It was pretty scary.”

It was 4:00 the morning of March 3^rd. Royal Arms Apartment resident Donna Leverette was awakened by a firefighter banging on her door. Once out of her apartment, she couldn’t believe what she saw just one building away.

“Flames shooting 50-60 feet in the air. They were shooting water on it from both sides of the building,” recalls Leverette.

The fire was the result of a meth lab that had exploded, killing two and critically injuring another. Police say the skyrocketing number of meth labs is not only a danger to the public, but a burden on police.

“It’s really been a big drain on the city and community,” says Tulsa police officer Leland Ashley.

So why the surge? A few years ago the state enacted a law that requires pharmacies to ask for an ID when anyone buys pseudoephedrine, the key ingredient for making meth. That information is then sent to a central database. But meth-makers often get around the law by driving to multiple pharmacies or paying other people to buy pseudoephedrine for them.

Combine that with the use of fake ID’s with different names, police have an uphill battle. And other meth ingredients like rock salt and drain cleaner can be bought at hardware stores without an ID.

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LegalizeDrugs - 4/16/2009 4:37 AM

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You can bust every meth lab that you can find and imprison every meth user you catch and you will not even START to put a dent in the huge demand for meth. Meth addicts LOVE their meth and if you shut down the local meth labs then the Mexican mafia will simply increase the amount of meth it exports into the USA to meet the new demand. If cops found 71 labs then that means there were 700 labs that they didn't find. The police can't win. Nobody can stop the use of meth. Methamphetamine should be legal. Legalizing meth would kill meth labs, meth houses and the meth mafia overnight. A group of 20,000 very serious policemen, prosecutors and attorneys have formed a group to legalize ALL drugs, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (http://leap.cc ) They see what happened when we legalized alcohol in 1932 as a good example of how drug legalization would work. We can't stop drugs. They're sick of chasing drug users and sending innocent people to prison for decades just because they like to get high. This foolish war on drugs has lasted 37 years and cost us over a TRILLION dollars and we are not an inch closer to stopping drugs. How many millions of Americans are we going to lock up in prison for decades? Legalize ALL drugs now. Mark Montgomery boboberg@nyc.rr.com

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