The Mooresie

Sierra Magazine: Welcome to Meth Country

Law enforcement officers […] must wear hermetically sealed moon suits and self-contained breathing apparatuses for protection. Hazmat (hazardous-materials) teams then come in to clean up the mess. And it’s a big mess: For every pound of meth produced, between five and six pounds of highly toxic waste is generated.
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“We had one mobile-home lab that had been operating for several years on private land within the boundaries of the Sitgreaves National Forest,” he says. “We found some large ponderosa pines that were a hundred and fifty years old killed off by the fumes.”