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Serious question: What is the point of banning ephedrine at this point? There's a good chance it's WORSE for public health... I guess it does push the meth labs
by P_I_Staker 3y ago
Serious question: What is the point of banning ephedrine at this point? There's a good chance it's WORSE for public health... I guess it does push the meth labs to mexico?
That's not really how it was sold: Have mexico make more dangerous meth in bulk using industrial chemicals, while shutting down small labs in the US, and causing plummeting prices.
It may be controversial whether ephedrine based meth is any less harmful, but I think there's enough to suspect it. It's just theater.
In the best case they're equally bad, but it's still pointless.
- fragmede 3y agoHave prices actually plummeted, or are we just funneling thatthe much more money to the cartels? Because I don't remember prices falling at the super market, I can't imagine the black market is any different.
- P_I_Staker 3y agoAt some point it did. I'm not saying currently, but when mega labs came on the scene, I guess it did. Of course, as a non-meth user and non-expert (although I wouldn't trust "experts" on drugs) I'm not sure, but somewhere in the 90s to early 2000s, they really figured out how to flood the market.