1.0 link 35171 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-piper/happy-meth-awareness-day_b_35171.html President Bush has declared today National Methamphetamine Awareness Day. Although methamphetamine abuse and illegal meth labs have recently become subjects of intense national concern, state and federal policymakers have actually been grappling with both problems for more than 40 years (the first illegal U.S. meth lab was discovered in the early 1960s.) The national strategy for dealing with the drug is the same now as it was then: incarcerate as many methamphetamine offenders as possible and hope for the...

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