# Growing pot to buy meth labs? WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 28, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542 "2006-09-28T22:21:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/1 "2006-09-28T22:21:16Z")
Watching a KCAL 9 TV report about a pot farm found in the mountains, the anchor read the following: “Authorities said that mexican drug cartels were growing the pot to buy meth labs.” This seems ridiculous to me. This is just another weak attempt by the fuzz to create a specious link between pot and scary hard drugs. Why in the world would a “cartel” need to raise money? If you are a drug cartel, one of your biggest problems is having too much cash. Besides that, the meth labs I have seen would require less of an investment than an irrigated pot farm out in the wilderness. It’s just a bunch of Homer buckets, tubing and cheap chemicals in a shack, no? It is not like they are setting Phizer for crying out loud. Trailer trash manages to do it without having a hash brownie bake sale, so you are telling me a cartel can’t afford some coffe cans and nyquil or whatever? Gee, oscifer, don’t you think they might have been growing pot to finance fancy cars and bigscreen TV’s? Nah, that would be too obvious. When are these guys going to realize that the more they BS the less they are going to be believed? DARE has been shown to actually increase the chances of a teen using drugs, but what the hell, let’s keep it up, it’s good for business all around. We get both the DARE grant and more people to lock up in the future. Win win for the Law Enforcement Industry. This stuff makes me sick. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/2 "2006-09-28T22:24:38Z")
Not meth labs. _Mixed_ labs. And who can blame them? Aren’t they [adorable?](http://www.saveadog.org/DogPictures/Nick___lab_mix_puppies_2.jpg) Remember folks, every time you smoke a bowl, a puppy gets a home! ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/3 "2006-09-28T22:28:08Z")
They’re trying to horn in on the government’s business. The Man’s gonna fight dirty when that happens. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/4 "2006-09-28T23:33:39Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Not meth labs. _Mixed_ labs. And who can blame them? Aren’t they [adorable?](http://www.saveadog.org/DogPictures/Nick___lab_mix_puppies_2.jpg) [/QUOTE] Hey! You linked to a picture with a… :eek: gasp! :eek: [I feel faint from the shock] A… [sub]naked crotch shot![/sub] You sickening pervert! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/5 "2006-09-29T00:03:43Z")
Yeah, it’s just another government attempt to spin the image of pot growers and users into that of a danger and threat to our nation. :rolleyes: Whatever ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/6 "2006-09-29T00:52:00Z")
“Buy” a meth lab? As in a prefab building complete with all the chemicals and equipment needed- no assembly required? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/7 "2006-09-29T02:55:29Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Hey! You linked to a picture with a… :eek: gasp! :eek: [I feel faint from the shock] A… [sub]naked crotch shot![/sub] You sickening pervert! :mad: [/QUOTE] Worse, the subject is clearly underage. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/8 "2006-09-29T02:56:35Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] “Buy” a meth lab? As in a prefab building complete with all the chemicals and equipment needed- no assembly required? [/QUOTE] Sure. A burnkey operation. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/9 "2006-09-29T05:49:07Z")
[QUOTE=Oregon sunshine] Yeah, it’s just another government attempt to spin the image of pot growers and users into that of a danger and threat to our nation. :rolleyes: Whatever [/QUOTE] When you guys gonna learn to pump your own gas? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/10 "2006-09-29T07:18:20Z")
Well, of course. _First_ you get the pot, _then_ you get the meth, and _then_ you get the women. Don’t you guy know nothin’ 'bout America? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/11 "2006-09-29T07:31:15Z")
Why am I picturing this whole “buy a meth lab” thing like the purchase of an [Authentic Irish Pub Kit?](http://www.irishpubcompany.com/) : _Don’t know anything about Crystal Meth? Need some strung out crazy folks and a few overachiever white collars as well? Call now and we’ll deliver you the complete kit for your very own Slappy O’Benneflatterganagones’s! Six models to choose from! (Set-up fees, fireproofing and three-legged dog not included.)_ ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/12 "2006-09-29T14:56:37Z")
I just want to know how often the OP hangs out in meth labs. Is there something about Burbank we should know? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/13 "2006-09-29T17:47:33Z")
Ohhh, _that_ explains the ad I saw in yesterday’s real estate section – **METH MANUFACTURING DREAM!** 4BR, 2BA RANCH. MASSIVE KITCHEN - MUST BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED! BR’S CAN BE CONVERTED TO COOKING ROOMS. WELL VENTILATED, NEAR INTERSTATE. EZ-ACCESS ATTIC GOOD FOR WEAPON/PRODUCT STASH. BLOW AWAY THE COMPETITION! ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/14 "2006-10-01T06:21:08Z")
[QUOTE=thelurkinghorror] I just want to know how often the OP hangs out in meth labs. Is there something about Burbank we should know? [/QUOTE] Not hard to find images of meth labs on tv or the [intertnet](http://home1.gte.net/tcdtf/methlab.jpg). Wow is that a hot plate I see? Gotta sell a lot of pot to buy one of those! And look at all these epensive supplies, Red Devil Lye, camp fuel, why you’d have to sell many pounds of weed to afford all that. Do you see why I am calling BS on this claim? Or do you guys just want to keep cracking wise? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/15 "2006-10-01T08:47:07Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Wanderer] Do you see why I am calling BS on this claim? Or do you guys just want to keep cracking wise? [/QUOTE] You seem to be under the misapprehension that these are two mutually exclusive activities. The folks in this thread “cracking wise” are doing so precisely because the claims you are pitting are so transparently preposterous that they don’t even deserve a serious response. We mock because we care, dude. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/16 "2006-10-01T15:10:18Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] You seem to be under the misapprehension that these are two mutually exclusive activities. The folks in this thread “cracking wise” are doing so precisely because the claims you are pitting are so transparently preposterous that they don’t even deserve a serious response. We mock because we care, dude. [/QUOTE] Precisely. Everyone knows that pot doesn’t cause the manufacture of hard drugs, it causes the uncontrollable urge to [murder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness). Or at least uncontrollable giggling. There was a series of ads awhile back which suggested that buying weed is funding terrorism, through some specious reasoning. Anti-drug education is done a great disservice by these types of “education” like in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/17 "2006-10-01T21:10:25Z")
So you actually believe the LEO’s assertion that the pot farm’s purpose was to fund the construction of meth labs? I would like to see some evidence of that. Of course, none was presented. I feel like the guy in [this cartoon.](http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=20566) Enjoy your “watchdog” media, that lets patently ridiculous claims like this pass to the public unchallenged. More like lapdogs. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/18 "2006-10-01T21:16:13Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Wanderer] So you actually believe the LEO’s assertion that the pot farm’s purpose was to fund the construction of meth labs? I would like to see some evidence of that. Of course, none was presented. I feel like the guy in [this cartoon.](http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=20566) Enjoy your “watchdog” media, that lets patently ridiculous claims like this pass to the public unchallenged. More like lapdogs. [/QUOTE] Sweetie, I think your sarcasm meter is broken. No one, but no one in this thread thinks it’s likely that they were growing pot to buy a meth lab. The idea is absurd. It’s so absurd that it’s really, really hard to get worked up about it. Especially when the couch is sooooo comfy… Here, smoke some of this. It’ll make you feel better. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/19 "2006-10-01T21:25:39Z")
The next big thing in meth labs is “superlabs” out of Mexico, which dwarf our teeny little trailer labs. I can see one of those requiring some investment capital. Here’s an article with pics: [DEA: Meth Superlab Discovered by Mexican Authorities - New U.S. Anti-Meth Initiatives Help Lead Mexican Law Enforcement to Massive Lab](http://www.dea.gov/pubs/pressrel/pr081006.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542/20 "2006-10-01T22:59:39Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Wanderer] So you actually believe the LEO’s assertion that the pot farm’s purpose was to fund the construction of meth labs? I would like to see some evidence of that. Of course, none was presented. I feel like the guy in [this cartoon.](http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=20566) Enjoy your “watchdog” media, that lets patently ridiculous claims like this pass to the public unchallenged. More like lapdogs. [/QUOTE] Everyone here agrees with you, pard. Relax. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pot-to-buy-meth-labs-wtf/374542.md?page=2)