House cleaning

House lawmakers are introducing a bill for federal research on meth houses. It would fund studies to identify the health dangers and help states create standards for cleaned-up houses, and will hold a hearing next month examining the health dangers of shut-down meth labs.

I'm glad to see this. With the proliferation of home labs this has become a greater threat, especially to low income Americans. These labs are generally set up in poor neighborhoods with cheap rents. They come in, cook it up and leave the landlord with the mess. Oftentimes the landlord won't even know it happened and the next family moves into a chemical wasteland.

Of course the one thing this research is unlikely to touch on is that this did not become a problem until they government banned the precursor ingredients. In the old days they cooked meth without the toxic waste because the precursors were pure controlled substances.

Another example of how prohibition creates problems rather than solving them.