Police attribute the spike to several factors: Missouri is a rural state with a lot of farms making it easier for people to get their hands on fertilizers and other ingrediants to make meth. Missouri is also highly traveled, many people drive the interstates and stop at motels where they make meth, and police say they've become more aggressive when it comes to seizing meth.

"Some of the things that really hamper us is there's no real-time reporting when people can go and buy their ephedrine and pseudoephedrine at one place, they can go to another place and so on down the road," said Sgt. Daniel Bracker of Missouri State Highway Patrol.

Sgt. Bracker was referring to Missouri's new law that requires pharmacies to sell pseuodephedrine and ephedrine behind the counter, they also have to keep track of who they're selling it to and how much. However meth-makers are getting around this by going to several pharmacies and buying the limit.