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Yes, if you mean pseudoephedrine, that's to stop the production of meth.
by rosywoozlechan 4y ago
Yes, if you mean pseudoephedrine, that's to stop the production of meth.
- Scoundreller 4y agoI thought it was to prevent competing with the cartels?
- colechristensen 4y agoJust as a note, this didn't work at all. They came up with a better chemistry and now there's more meth than there was before. Breaking Bad dramatized this aspect of it (though their chemistry wasn't correct on purpose).
- rosywoozlechan 4y agofentanyl I think is what's replaced meth at this point.
- colechristensen 4y agoNo there’s plenty of meth around, don’t just guess about things. They’re making meth with a new process at industrial scales these days, by the ton. Fentanyl gets a lot of air time on the news these days but don’t confuse that for prevalence in reality, problems aren’t proportional to the amount of attention they get. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new-meth/620174/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...
- pksebben 4y ago... which is totally in keeping with the war on drugs' track record. Efficacy was never quite their strong suit.
- x86_64Ubuntu 4y agoMexican superlabs put an end to the shake-and-bake method of making meth. And the biggest problem with shake-and-bake meth was the externalities of people making it at home, including bottles that would burst with caustic chemicals, and properties being condemned from the phosphorous in leaching into the walls.
- catiopatio 4y ago> that's to stop the production of meth. It didn’t. Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of people buying allergy medicine have the sniffles, not a meth lab. There’s always a “safety” justification for further privacy intrusions by the police. If they can’t do their job without intrusive, non-targeted government monitoring of the general public, the police need to get better at their jobs.
- scarface74 4y agoHow is that working out?