Cooking methamphetamine takes only a few hours and requires simple household ingredients, like striker plates from matchbooks, the guts of lithium batteries, drain cleaner.
"It's pretty gross," said Matt Leland, who works in career services at the University of Northern Colorado and who recently helped cook the drug in a lab. "If someone was truly interested in manufacturing meth, it would not be that hard."
The Drug Enforcement Administration invited Leland and other citizens - such as software engineers, a teacher, a pastor and a school principal - to make methamphetamine last week in a lab at Metropolitan State College of Denver.
You just can't make this stuff up. I would think that a description of a meth lab and how the drug is produced would be enough to convince people that it is not difficult to make. Why is this necessary?
The class was held as part of the DEA's first Citizens Academy in order to give the public a close-up view of what the agency does to keep drugs off the street.
Although meth remains a significant problem across the U.S., the number of clandestine labs has dropped because some of the ingredients are harder to obtain.
Now it makes sense. It's a bit of tax-payer funded publicity for the DEA. If I worked for the DEA wasting billions of dollars on a hopelessly misguided war on drugs, I would probably need an ego boost too.
Just because the number of clandestine labs has decreased does not mean that meth is more difficult to get. Mexico has been exporting meth to meet the demand.
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