Jasbird

On 3 Oct 2003 08:55:59 -0700, (P.M.) wrote:

    >Two points to be made here.

    >First, drug lab chemists are now using chemical ingredients and
    >methods that produce no odor.

Where did you get that from? - everything has a smell.

    >They use insecticides; chordane is one that has no odor.

No they don't use insecticides. Did you mean to say "Chlordane"? If so
you should be careful with your spelling because many different
chemicals have similar names. Chlordane hasn't been used as an
insecticide in the USA for 15 years.

    > They produce highly toxic fumes, and the gas phosfene is one
    > such poisonous by-product that has no odor.

More nonsense. What is "phosfene" used for then? - apart from being an
insecticide it has no application in drug chemistry. Nor is it
produced as a by-product - of meth making.

    >Mercuric Chloride is a toxic dust

A nearly true statement. Mercuric Chloride can be a dust - but in not
likely to escape into the atmosphere - so in practice that doesn't
matter.

    > that is produced as a by-product,

Followed by another false statement. It is used in manufacturing - it
is not a by-product.

What did you do - throw a die to decide what to say?

    >and apparently not everyone can taste this dust. I can.

It's poisonous - you should not be tasting it. Although you'd need to
eat a fair bit to kill yourself - the organo-mercuric compounds are
much more dangerous than this inorganic compound.

    >The second point is that meth is not the only product made in
    >clandestine drug labs; other types of illicit drugs are produced as
    >well.

True - but I think 90%+ of the drug labs are meth labs as these are
the ones reported in the news - and I'm a newshound.

    >Actually, hotels may not even be the sites of drug labs, but they are
    >preferred by criminals as sites for their toxic waste to be dumped
    >down the drain.

You must be kidding - If they want to dump stuff down the drain they
can dump it anywhere - why go to the trouble of taking it to the
hotel?

    >Once they do this, the waste lines the drain pipes and
    >then fumes work their way throught the maze of pipes and arise out of
    >drain openings and toilets all over the building.

Not likely is it? - otherwise hotels would have no customers prepared
to put up with the shitty smells.

There have been news reports of drug labs in hotels, trailers and
rented premises. No one would set up a drug lab in a house they own -
because the house would be confiscated if they were caught.