Photos: Top Twelve Craziest Meth Busts In Missouri, The Meth Capital Of The U.S.

4. Mayor In Trouble

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Exhaustion? Methamphetamine abuse? What's the difference? For former Valley Park Mayor Nathan Grellner, it became a kind of important distinction -- and part of one of the many missteps that eventually cost him his job.

After all sorts of legal troubles, he allegedly went to a hospital for "exhaustion." Documents, however, later revealed that meth abuse was probably the more serious cause. Although it's very likely he was exhausted, too -- from reportedly doing many illegal things, like getting DWIs, visiting strip clubs, you know, the usual mayoral stuff.

3. The Soda Jerk

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Stephen Munn got 12 years in state prison after pleading guilty to possession of controlled substances and resisting arrest, all on top of a previous conviction in 2005 for possessing meth-related drug paraphernalia.

Sounds sort of routine, right?

But things got weird when police learned that Munn had been using a mentally challenged man in his care to purchase pseudoephedrine to make meth. And what did this man get in return?

Soda.

Continue for more Missouri meth busts.

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buddecj
buddecj

Yikes, they all look like extras for Crypt Keeper.

jbradhicks
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I'm going to say something mild in defense of #s 2 and 7.

#7: By home meth-lab standards, setting up your lab in a cemetary that you have a legal right to be at almost qualifies as polite behavior. No property values to ruin, no neighbors to endanger. He could have done a lot worse.

#2: Obviously brewing your own Benzedrine (which is what meth is) to medicate your ADHD kid is bad. You're supposed to use much-more-expensive Ritalin (which is also speed) instead. Look, snark aside, given that we do treat at least some childhood behaviors with speed, why is what she was doing completely incomprehensible? She wasn't qualified to diagnose, sure, and I don't know that Benzedrine has been clinically tested as a substitute for Ritalin ... but if it's what you've got, if it's what you can afford, and you have some reason to think it might work, wouldn't you at least consider trying it if your kid needed medication badly?

cmdresch
cmdresch

Please tell me you are kidding - because no one in their right mind can believe that a meth user (obvious by the fact that the meth was available for the child to "demand" it) letting a child smoke meth from a pipe is in any way comparable with a doctor prescribing Ritalin.  If you do truly believe this is acceptable because it's "what you've got", "what you can afford" then I sure hope you are not responsible for any children.  This woman's actions - and your justifacation of it - are beyond the pale..

craftycutie78
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@cmdresch I am a pharmacy technician here in St. Louis, and guess what "Ritalin" is brand name for? Yes, Methamphetamine! If you give kids Ritalin you are almost giving them the same thing. The difference? One is made in a pharmaceutical lab and one is made in a trailer. If you watch Breaking Bad it is interesting because since the main character is a chemist he makes pharmaceutical grade meth, ie, the same as your doctor would prescribe. Another main difference is that what your doctor gives you is in pill form, and the illegal kind in usually smoked. So don't be so quick to judge jbradhicks, he is theoretically correct. 

gonzomurphy
gonzomurphy

@craftycutie78 

You are incorrect and saying meth is the same as Ritalin is the same as saying Meth is the same as Red Bull.  Both contain compounds that stimulate the nervous system, but the chemical structures are not the same.  You should also be aware that even slight chemical structure differences can result in vastly different effects.

http://www.erowid.org/ask/ask.php?ID=2846

Additionally, Ritalin has a prescribed dosage where as meth is self medicated and self-prescribed with wildly different strengths resulting in wildly different psychoactive effects as a result.  Frankly, your response is extremely irresponsible and ignorant.


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