I read abook on Scott Spurlock,who was a bank robber-meth cooker in a lab from Seattle.He,in the early 80's was one of the biggest meth pushers on the west coast.Not southern "rednecks" were his buyers but rich college kids.And ofcourse everything out in Cali or out west eventually moves this way.That is where it started as far as I am concerned.Now,yeah you got an epidemic here in the south today.The ones cooking meth at first here,their granddads were the moonshiners back in 50's and 60's.In the backwoods and hollars.but now almost every cheap hotel room has a cooker.