What the hell is wrong with the police?
Now they’re after kids doing science experiments. In Canada, too – I might have expected this in the US with their crazy War on Drugs, but here?
As one commenter put it, is it more dangerous to have chemistry labs in people’s garages, or the whole population to be stupid as hell because they can’t do anything on their own any more?
A Canadian college student majoring in chemistry built himself a home lab – and discovered that trying to do science in your own home quickly leads to accusations of drug-making and terrorism.
Lewis Casey, an 18-year-old in Saskatchewan, had built a small chemistry lab in his family’s garage near the university where he studies. Then two weeks ago, police arrived at his home with a search warrant and based on a quick survey of his lab determined that it was a meth lab. They pulled Casey out of the shower to interrogate him, and then arrested him.
via Pharyngula: When they criminalize chemistry, all chemists are criminals.
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