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>Pharmaceutical companies make methamphetamine too, and their production processes are well-regulated, produce drugs without hazardous adulterants, and do not p
by mistercow 13y ago
>Pharmaceutical companies make methamphetamine too, and their production processes are well-regulated, produce drugs without hazardous adulterants, and do not put children in danger.
Also, one of the reasons that making meth (and several other drugs) illegally is so dangerous and error prone is that all of the easy precursors are carefully regulated and tracked by the government.
It's kind of like how outlawing abortion wouldn't actually stop people from getting abortions; it would just make them way more dangerous.
- lostlogin 13y agoThe efforts big pharma makes to continue selling precursor drugs suggests big pharma actually love the current situation. They block laws which would help make cooking considerably harder. For all the war-on-drugs rhetoric, the laws are actually quite weak when it comes to blocking the availability of precursor compounds. Stopping the trade would lower profits. This is bad as far as the companies are concerned. http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/meth-pseudoephedrine-big-pharma-lobby?page=2 http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/meth-pseudoephedri...