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Italian Police seize 14 tons of amphetamine tablets produced in Syria worth 1.12 Billion dollars, purportedly the largest seizure in history.  That's a mountain of meth.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/italian-police-seize-14-tons-amphetam...

I've only tried meth once in my life.  It was back in 1986 during the Kaiser run in Berkeley when I was 21 on one of the off nights.  I woke up the next morning in a waterbed next to a woman who was an acquaintance of mine from Virginia who was also out for the shows.  We balled all night, then never spoke of it again.  I can see how people make regrettable decisions on that stuff.

Fourteen tons and whattya get?
Another year older and closer to death.
St. Peter doncha call me 'cause I can't go
I sold my soul to be shovelin' snow

Is this why Syria doesn't have nice things?

> That's a mountain of meth.

My experience with meth is there ain't no mountain high enough. No matter how much there is, some tweaker somewhere is going to be jonesing for more at 3 in the morning.

"...The Guardia di Finanza announced on Wednesday that police in the port of Salerno, outside of Naples, had discovered more than 84 million tablets of the drug Captagon hidden within paper cylinders that were being transported in a shipping container.

Weighing around 14 tonnes and with an estimated street value of one billion Euros, the “extraordinary” seizure is the largest of its kind on record...

Italian authorities believe the Captagon had been manufactured by the Islamic State and that the amount would likely be sufficient to satisfy the entirety of the European market for the drug.

Otherwise known as fenethylline, captagon is a psychostimulant that creates feelings of euphoria, well-being and aggression..."

So it's not regular Biker speed or Meth -- something different.