Reply #44: Just because they're stealing anhydrous doesn't mean they're [View All]

Unemployed. Anhydrous is strictly controlled, and can't be bought over the counter, you have to have crops and a license, with records to back you up, in order to get it.

And yes, meth users are employed and employable. In fact that's one of the major factors that leads people to trying meth, they're poor and working two or three jobs, trying to stay awake. They take a little bump, and away they go. Through my volunteer work I've met many, many meth users, and the unemployment rate is only slightly higher than "normal" people. Granted, they're mostly McJobs, but it brings in the money. Make meth legal, and hence cheap, and gee, you wouldn't have the crime wave that accompanies meth.

Oh, and if you make meth legal, you wouldn't have the house fires either. Why go through the cost and hassle of setting up a lab when you can go down to the corner drug store and pick it up? How many illegal stills are in operation these days? Not very many, and the amount of liquor they make is in the hundreths of a percentage point.