Word: meth
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...could be smoking right now. Back then, she had a dozen tablets packed into a plastic soda straw stuffed down her black, wire-frame bra. The hut was alive with the chatter of a half dozen speed addicts, all pulling apart their Krong Tip packs and sucking in meth smoke through metal pipes. Now that the pills are gone, the fun is gone. And Bing, of course, he's long gone...
...country after country throughout Asia, meth use skyrocketed during the '90s. And with the crash of the region's high-flying economies, the drug's use has surged again as battered, tired populations try to work through their hangovers with even more mad medicine. If you used the drug to push yourself to work harder when the region was on its way up, you then used it to alleviate the boredom of unemployment when the region was on its way down. It has now become a continent-wide crisis, one that is creating millions of addicts and threatening to cripple...
...Chinese mao herb in 1892. Amphetamine and methamphetamine are derived from this ephedrine base, or from pseudoephedra, an artificial alternative, in a hazardous process that involves heating and pressurizing solvents and other store-bought chemicals. While the refining can be volatile, it is not terribly complex, which means that meth labs are an ideal family business for industrious Asians, who set them up in converted bathrooms, farmhouses or even the family hearth. Unlike ecstasy, which requires sophisticated chemical and pharmaceutical knowledge to manufacture, or heroin, where the base product, the poppy plant, is a vulnerable crop, there are no limits...
...This gray-brick warehouse on the outskirts of Beijing is a typical, small-time meth lab. Here, the six members of the Li family oversee the process of creating crystalline methamphetamine. Their neighbors, says father Li, think they are making legal chemicals, which is why crystals are drying out in the open between two warehouses. "No one knows that this isn't an agricultural product," he smiles. "No one knows what methamphetamines look like." After Li's speed is processed it is handed over to local crime gangs, who ship it to Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia and Australia or take...
...know that it helped me to write better stories; I don't believe meth really helps you in any way at all. But in those months, it became arguably the most important activity in my life. Certainly it was the most fun. And I looked forward to Haru coming over with another 20,000-yen baggie of shabu, the drug resembling a little, oily lump of glass. Then we would smoke, at first only on weekends but soon we began to do it on weekdays, whenever I had a free evening. At first only with my friends. Then sometimes...