But let's start with the "near San Jose High School" in the headline. Was it next door? Was it going to explode and injure the kids? Or was it six blocks away?

And they also got "cartel-style" into the headline, too. Ooh, double scary.

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Agents recovered crystal methamphetamine and liquid methamphetamine in amounts that suggest the operation might have been supplied by Mexican drug cartels. Vanier said evidence found Friday is consistent with a distribution chain that begins with raw materials being smuggled from Mexico and ends with its refinement at a "transfer point" -- like the North 20th Street home -- before being sold on the streets.

"This resembles a cartel-style operation," Vanier said.

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That's a whole lot of maybe, but it makes for good, scary copy.

I have to wonder why Mexican cartels, who have their own sophisticated meth labs in Mexico, as well as access to precursor chemicals through Mexican ports, would be smuggling bulky precursors instead of finished product into the United States. It doesn't make much sense.

Americans love us our stimulants. Walk into any convenience store and you see all kinds of "energy" drinks and stuff like that. Or walk into one of those tens of thousands of stimulant dispensers known as coffee shops. Or look at all those people doing legal speed like Adderall and Ritalin. Maybe we would be better off finding a way to deal with illegal stimulant users that doesn't involve black markets and the criminal justice system.

Look up the high school in Google Maps. You'll see 20th & Julian near the campus.

meth is bad news, it harms people and is very, very addictive.

I suggest they place a non toxic! dye or marker in one of the cheap, cheap products used to make meth.

If people noses glowed in the dark for a month they would NOT try that crap a second time.