Saw in the news we rank #1 in meth lab busts in the US.

Must have happened since we in Oklahoma made pseudophedrine something you had to sign and show ID for at the pharmacist's counter.

I'm disappointed that our meth cookers can't be more resourceful and just drive to Arkansas, Texas or Kansas.

Iowa law doesn't require sigs for pseudoephedrine . . . just strict accounting for anhydrous ammonia and any devices from which you can extract lithium (plus you can't buy more than 96 pills at a time).

IA has been either one or two in methamphetimine busts for almost a decade, simply due to the perceived availability of anhydrous ammonia (farms do have legit uses for it, there's tons in the state) and the wide-open spaces needed to mask the intense odor of ether cooking. State-wide crackdowns and enforcement have led to being #1 in busts, even while not #1 in actual production, it's interesting.


-RC
--knows too much about crystal, probably

I know in FY2000, Oklahoma led with 897 labs busted.

Since the passage of our new pseudophedrine law, we've only had around 39 (maybe 37) in the first quarter of this year.

We have the same problem with the availability of anhydrous ammonia. The pseudophedrine law seems to have had an excellent effect.

I tell you what, i don't know the stats, but i'm sure SD is right up there.

All i hear on the Rapid City news and Sioux Falls news is about meth lab busts.

I've also heard that a lot of MJ is funnelled through the rez and that I-90 is notorious for being a favorite route of drug runners.

Kitso
KS 361 times i want everyone to notice that yes, Kitso did post in a thread about another state and didn't make any snide remarks. I don't dislike all states, just some of the ones y'all happen to be from

I'm with ya kitso. I am looking forward to my visit to the big empty square states. I wanna set foot in Iowa just so I can add it to my list of states visited. Have flown over it a lot, just never visited. If we go it will bring my total to 30.

best thing about Iowa? Hearing the tornado sirens and SEEING the tornado just TWO WEEKS after you moved from Maryland to this fine flat state. :p Yah, never been so terrified in my life!

tornados are fun. Standing infront of the giant plate-glass window at work watching debri fly down the street is one of my HS work experiences that I'll cherish forever.

i could see that being fun...but not when the thing is threatening to pay a house call :P

Register's
Annual
Great
Bike
Ride
Across
Iowa
http://www.ragbrai.org/
Around 10,000:
Iowans
Out
Wandering
Around

Ahhh yes, the greatest drunken rolling party on two wheels....the only time the otherwise staid Iowa let's their hair down :) Number one fundraiser of Ragbrai...beer tents!

It's one of the few occassions where you really have to try to get a public intox. And to get an OWI you need to be constantly crashing your bicycle.

My best bud Hana who is stranded in Dubuque! :)

I found this on the RAGBRAI site: http://www.ragbrai.org/aa2004meetings.html

You know, it's been half my life since I lived in Iowa and about that long that I'd heard abour RAGBRAI. This year, it's all over the place. My company's security admin is on vacation to do RAGBRAI and a plane of 3 men crashed in Fort Collins on their way there a couple of days ago. Now, I log into GC and there it is again. It's a damn cool race though.