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Q&A with the Professor behind the good science in 'Breaking Bad'
- DennisP 13y ago"The DEA helped to ensure that certain critical steps were omitted and that everything in this regard was kept legal." I wonder what the legal justification for this is, given the First Amendment.
- lgas 13y agoIt looks like it was done voluntarily as a CYA measure: "The DEA helped to ensure that certain critical steps were omitted and that everything in this regard was kept legal. That was very smart of Vince. That ensured that any complaints they received could be referred to the DEA."
- malandrew 13y agoIt's actually probably a lot more than CYA insofar as civil liability is concerned. IIRC Meth in particular is a drug in a class all by itself with respect to the first amendment. The Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act of 1999 contained language sufficiently broad enough that merely hyperlinking to instructional content on the Internet would have been considered a federal crime because doing so would constitute knowingly providing information that would aid in the production of a controlled substance. I don't recall if the language that would have had first amendment implications made it into the final bill or not. Even now the USG is trying to stifle free speech by going after people teaching techniques on how to beat polygraph tests.