Meth
Methamphetamine continues to be the predominant drug menace in California.
Mexican organizations direct the development and deployment of high-quality meth, while a secondary trafficking faction, composed mostly of Caucasians, operates undersized, unsophisticated laboratories. Secret laboratories can be set up in any setting: high density residential neighborhoods, sparsely populated agricultural areas, remote desert locations in the southern portions of California, and the forested areas in northern California. In recent years, there has been a let up in the number of meth labs seized in California and an spread in the number of meth labs just south of the border in Mexico.
Heroin
The increased availability of high purity heroin that can be snorted allows a new, secondary population to use heroin exempt from a syringe and needle. Drug treatment specialists suspected that these new heroin users take large amounts of heroin and become rapidly addicted
Cocaine
Cocaine is freely accessible all through the state with Los Angeles remaining one of the country’s largest cocaine transshipment and allocation centers. Cocaine is also extensively available in San Francisco and different areas of northern California.
An Update on California’s War on Drugs-Part 1
Drugs such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana are smuggled into the state from Mexico; even so, methamphetamine and marijuana are still produced or cultivated in substantial quantities here in California. San Diego remains a dominant transshipment zone for an assortment of drugs smuggled from Mexico. The northern portion of California continues to be awash in methamphetamine, but more and more in agricultural areas. Heroin remains the number one abused drug in San Francisco, and both heroin and crack cocaine continue to impact Oakland. Methamphetamine abuse continues in and throughout Sacramento.
