Australian police make record seizure of methamphetamine

Isn't pot legal down under?

I've seen a couple of lives destroyed by this nasty stuff. Congrats to the Federal police and China for working together.

@fizzbit, no it's still illegal although it's more or less 'tolerated' (you don't go to jail for recreational use).

Ice on the other hand is a massive problem in oz, not only in big metro areas but also in the country. The 3-4 part doco "ICE wars" which aired on abc (oz) a few weeks ago is a must-watch (probably available online). And what's imo specific to oz is that it affects everyone from city slickers to country folks, rich/poor, young/old, politicians (Jacquie Lambie's son), docs, working class etc.

Meth is an obscenity. I hope these guys get life without parole.

If this much can be produced in China, it make you wonder how much is actually consumed there.

Would imagine that it is quite a lot.

When I read of people rampaging in a kindergaten or elsewhere in China, I imagine that the use of meth is connected.

Could be wrong though.

garymalmgren, although this came out of a Chinese port, it was monitored by the Chinese Narcotics police, and is more likely to be from a third country as the article hints at. Quote: " the drug originated from somewhere in Asia"

"They who shall not be named."

That's enough drugs for criminals to launch an assault to get it back.

"They who shall not be named."

How else can they finance their bomb and missile tests?

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/03/world/asia/china-meth-raid/index.html

"There are barbarian ships that strive to come here for trade for the purpose of making a great profit. The wealth of China is used to profit the barbarians. That is to say, the great profit made by barbarians is all taken from the rightful share of China. By what right do they then in return use the poisonous drug to injure the Chinese people? Even though the barbarians may not necessarily intend to do us harm, yet in coveting profit to an extreme, they have no regard for injuring others. Let us ask, where is your conscience? I have heard that the smoking of opium is very strictly forbidden by your country; that is because the harm caused by opium is clearly understood. Since it is not permitted to do harm to your own country, then even less should you let it be passed on to the harm of other countries – how much less to China!"

From Lin Tse-Hsu's letter to Queen Victoria explaining to the Queen the Emperor’s concern about the evil of opium, and insistence that the source of the problem was the trade conducted by the British:

Lived next door to an Ozzie Ice Head in Thailand, it aint pretty.