The Shenandoah Valley has beautiful scenery, but an ugly problem: methamphetamines. The Post says that Viriginia officials are trying to get a better understanding of the use of “poor man’s cocaine” in the area.

In the past five years, meth has become the No. 1 drug seized along the north-south corridor between Winchester and Harrisonburg, a belt that parallels Skyline Drive as well as Interstate 81. What stumps local authorities is that the deadly wave of meth, which began rolling east from Mexico and California in the 1990s, seems to have stopped — or paused — in central Virginia.

DCist wonders whether such a huge meth problem on the other side of the mountains will make its way into D.C. The Post says that the region’s narcotics map is “like a kaleidoscope: everything everywhere, in every direction. There are trends — heroin in Baltimore, crack in the District, “club drugs” such as Ecstasy in Northern Virginia …”