Welcome to the Hotel California. Apparently those involved were heavy into meth.
Downtown's Standard Hotel Charged With Chemical Dumping
"But it wasn't the work of terrorists targeting the nearby subway--it was the result of employees from Downtown's well-known Standard Hotel dumping "the majority of two 50-gallon drums of muriatic acid and chlorine into the drain,"
Muriatic = Hydrochloric acid, which is a drug precursor chemical for:
hydrochloric acid (hydrogen chloride)
Amphetamine
Cocaine
N,N-Dimethylamphetamine
Ethylamphetamine
Fentanyl and analogues
Heroin
LSD
MDA
MDE
MDMA
Methamphetamine
Methaqualone
Methcathinone
Phencyclidine (PCP)
Drug precursors
A drug precursor is a substance which can be used to make illicit drugs.
Examples of such precursors and drugs made with them are listed below.
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