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The homeless crisis is a drug epidemic caused by the law of unintended consequences. Marijuana being legalized forced Mexican drug cartels to pivot into making
by Flatcircle 5y ago
The homeless crisis is a drug epidemic caused by the law of unintended consequences.
Marijuana being legalized forced Mexican drug cartels to pivot into making synthetic meth (P2P meth)
Synthetic meth is much cheaper to make and is hard to regulate because it can be made from a cocktail of various household products, (the older meth was made from ephedra, and could be somewhat regulated by curbing the sale of large amounts of ephedra)
Whereas P2P meth can be made cheaply in large quantities with ubiquitous household chemicals
Unfortunately P2P causes psychosis at a much faster and more prevalent rate than ephedra based Meth.
So that’s what’s going on, there’s a huge influx of synthetic meth coming into America and really destroying a lot of lives. And homelessness is exploding
For further reading https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new-meth/620174/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...
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- jart 5y agoAccording to Hollywood one does not simply homebrew Phenylacetone. In movies like The Witness or the TV show Breaking Bad their entire plotlines revolve around people killing to get a drop of the stuff. It's not like it's anything new or that ephedra is some kind of natural produce that grows on trees. Skimming through your article it sounds like these cartel chemists are dropping dead in their laboratories trying to make it and producing a final product that's more like krokodil if anything.
- Flatcircle 5y agoYou shouldn’t skim the article and assume things and down vote stuff you don’t know about. Sam is a friend of mine and one of the leading experts about this crisis. You should read his book dream land and not jump to conclusions. He’s dedicated a lot to this story. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1620402521/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_1620402521 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1620402521/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_162...
- jart 5y agoWhy are you angry with me for downvoting something? How would you know that? Sorry for not reading your friend's book. Never claimed to be a drug expert.