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Meth Mountain.....Marshall County, Alabama

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I watched a show on one of the learning channels last night. It was about all of the meth in Marshall County. I was shocked and appalled. I knew that meth had crept in around those parts. I've got family in Arab, Douglas, Horton, and Guntersville so I'm not completely out of the loop as to what's going on in those parts. But my gawd, some of the stats they shot out are ridiculous!

It was disturbing to see MSNBC driving around Guntersville, parts I clearly recognized, and to know that they were doing a piece on how meth has torn that county to shreds.

Is it REALLY as bad as they are making it out to be up there on Sand Mtn?
 
They call Meth "Hillbilly Crack."

And yes it is a real problem in Alabama. Much moreso than casual marijuana use, because of the devastating physical effects that medium or long term Meth use has on the body.
 
It was on A & E, and yes it is that bad. In a public health class I had here in DC, we talked about Guntersville, AL and a town in Missouri as a reflection of the impact high rates of substance abuse can have on a community.

In 2004, 10% of the babies born at the Guntersville hospital were born to women who were under the influence of meth WHILE IN LABOR at the hospital. The hospital has consistently had one of the lowest avg. birth weights in the country.
 
bamanut_aj said:
I watched a show on one of the learning channels last night. It was about all of the meth in Marshall County. I was shocked and appalled. I knew that meth had crept in around those parts. I've got family in Arab, Douglas, Horton, and Guntersville so I'm not completely out of the loop as to what's going on in those parts. But my gawd, some of the stats they shot out are ridiculous!

It was disturbing to see MSNBC driving around Guntersville, parts I clearly recognized, and to know that they were doing a piece on how meth has torn that county to shreds.

Is it REALLY as bad as they are making it out to be up there on Sand Mtn?
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There was also a story in the Huntsville Times and USA Today several years ago about 'Meth Mountain.' Seems like CNN may have had a segment.

Interesting coincidence you posted this today.

Times-Journal

Authorities raided a Kilpatrick home Friday they believe was rented solely for the purpose of selling drugs, according to DeKalb County Sheriff Jimmy Harris.

Harris said police seized nearly $500,000 worth of methamphetamine from the home.

“We believe that no one was living in the home and that they were actually using the home just for this purpose,” he said. “No one was believed to have actually been living in the home.”

He said this operation should hamper the supply of meth in DeKalb County, as this house was being used as a major cut and distribution point.
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For anyone unfamiliar with the area, Kilpatrick is on the Marshall - Dekalb county line pretty much.
 
Tider@GW_Law said:
It was on A & E, and yes it is that bad. In a public health class I had here in DC, we talked about Guntersville, AL and a town in Missouri as a reflection of the impact high rates of substance abuse can have on a community.

In 2004, 10% of the babies born at the Guntersville hospital were born to women who were under the influence of meth WHILE IN LABOR at the hospital. The hospital has consistently had one of the lowest avg. birth weights in the country.
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God that is so sickening :mad:


To be honest , I tried about $5 worth of that garbage 21 Summers ago & it scared the hell out of me . I was awake for over 36 hours . Never again .
 
Tider@GW_Law said:
It was on A & E, and yes it is that bad. In a public health class I had here in DC, we talked about Guntersville, AL and a town in Missouri as a reflection of the impact high rates of substance abuse can have on a community.

In 2004, 10% of the babies born at the Guntersville hospital were born to women who were under the influence of meth WHILE IN LABOR at the hospital. The hospital has consistently had one of the lowest avg. birth weights in the country.
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yeah, I couldn't believe the stories that nurse was telling.....sickening.
 
gmart74 said:
please tell me they sterilize these mothers immediately after giving birth.
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I agree with you to a certain degree. But bearing children is considered a fundamental right and it would be very tough to write a law or implement a policy that infringes on that right without it being declared unconstitutional.
 
I'm originally from Guntersville and still make it back home to see the family a few times a year. It never fails when I am visiting that over a conversation with old friends someone's name from our past will come up that is/has been involved with meth. It's not like I see a bunch of zombies walking/driving around but evidently it is pretty bad.

I don't know why but I suspect that since the area is very rural outside of the cities and police jurisdictions that it is pretty easy to cook it up without anyone knowing it unless they blow their double wide up during the process, which does happen on occasion. My understanding is the ingredients are readily available and producing it is not like building an atomic bomb. Can't say for sure but maybe the explosion of the hispanic population in that area had something to do with it as well. To be perfectly frank, it is not a tremendously wealthy area as a whole either and meth is typically a poor man's drug.

I don't know what happened up there but it saddens me. It is a beautiful area and it will always be home, but the meth is a real problem. And for once I'm glad I didn't see a television program about my hometown. Doesn't sound like it was a nice portrayal.
 
jps1983 said:
I agree with you to a certain degree. But bearing children is considered a fundamental right and it would be very tough to write a law or implement a policy that infringes on that right without it being declared unconstitutional.
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Stupidity breeding stupidity is a fundamental right? Where is that in the Constitution? I think they should do drug and IQ tests of men and women and temporarily sterilize them until they are off the drugs for a certain number of years. If the IQ is very low...then why let them breed to begin with?

Geez.
 
Displaced Bama Fan said:
Stupidity breeding stupidity is a fundamental right? Where is that in the Constitution? I think they should do drug and IQ tests of men and women and temporarily sterilize them until they are off the drugs for a certain number of years. If the IQ is very low...then why let them breed to begin with?

Geez.
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I would tend to view it more as a privalidge rather than a right. Just like voting is a privalidge not a right. Or even driving for instance. You think that you have a right to drive. Get stopped drunk at a DUI chaeckpoint. And years ago, we had to be landowners to vote. Not a bad idea?
We fix our dogs, and cats, these people are not much diffarent.
 
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bamapuppy said:
I would tend to view it more as a privalidge rather thatn a right. Just like voting is a privalidge not a right. Or even driving for instance. You think that you have a right to drive. Get stopped drunk at a DUI chaeckpoint. And years ago, we had to be landowners to vote. Not a bad idea?
We fix our dogs, and cats, these people are not much diffarent.
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I seem to recall Adolf Hitler once saying something very similar.
 
I get my hometown paper delivered to me here in Fl. It comes out twice a week and is usually a week or so old when it gets to me. I'll start posting some of the busts.

A first in the latest issue. The water patrol was going under a bridge over one of the causeways out towards Grant. As they came under the bridge there was a fellow under it cooking him up a batch of meth. They called the cops and they came and arrested him. Ingenius, but nonetheless busted.
 
Displaced Bama Fan said:
Stupidity breeding stupidity is a fundamental right? Where is that in the Constitution? I think they should do drug and IQ tests of men and women and temporarily sterilize them until they are off the drugs for a certain number of years. If the IQ is very low...then why let them breed to begin with?

Geez.
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And when a northeastern NGO sterilizes 30% to 40% of Alabama's population, will you still think this is a great idea?
 
derek4tide said:
Remember the police chief in Marshall County being shot by the meth'd out hillbilly teenager?? That was in 2005, right?
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That was Grant's Chief of Police, Lemaster I believe was his name. I think the shootings took place a year or two earlier than '05 but I know the convictions and sentencings just happened earlier this year. You could PM"wasted mason" and ask him about it for the exacts. He is from Grant.
 
2 more meth busts.

As reported in the August 27th Advertiser Gleam, 2 meth labs busted north of the Tennessee River in the Hebron and Honeycomb areas. This area is just north of Guntersville and towards Grant. Found one of them on suspicion of there being a lab in the home and another one as a result of a search of a home for stolen property.

Keep making us proud baby. More to come...I'm sure.
 
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