> The policy doesn't have to cut off the meth supply to be successful on its own terms. Here in Australia we had project STOP in Queensland which started about

> The policy doesn't have to cut off the meth supply to be successful on its own terms. Here in Australia we had project STOP in Queensland which started about 20 years ago, and there's an analysis of the outcomes here - https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi509 https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi509 tl;dr it did stop pseudoephedrine going to meth labs BUT it has had no long term impact on the number of labs being detected nor seemingly on the availability of crystal meth. To me that's an abject failure of a policy, but some people look at it like "we restricted a precursor successfully!" and count it as a win.