A new law should be written. When renters contaminate a home with methamphetamine, they should be required to pay the cost of cleaning it up -- or go to jail.
We have vandalism laws, and contaminating a home with methamphetamine is vandalism. Should not it be treated as such?
As it is now, property owners require their tenants to pay a deposit. If the place is not cleaned up when they leave, the tenants don't get their deposit back. Such coverage, however does not cover meth damage. Plus, you must consider that a meth cleanup can cost $10,000. That would be a big deposit.
Meth contamination is vandalism. It should be treated as such. Perhaps make all damages subject to vandalism laws, not just meth use. How far you take such laws is a choice. Certainly, though, the law should provide that those using meth will be punished for the damage they do.
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