Arrgghhh!

[kengr]

Our ever so <sarcasm> brilliant </sarcasm> state legislators are talking about banning medications containing pseudoephedrine as a means of stopping meth production.

Pharmacists have pointed out that some people can't use the alternatives.

Also, even sillier, they are only banning tablet forms. Not gelcaps and liquigels, etc. And this in spite of the DEA reporting busting a lab that was using the non-tablet forms in meth production.

Lets hear it for yet another "look like we are doing something" measure.

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[kengr]

It's been off the shelves *here* for several years. They moved from "ask at the customer service desk" to "get it at the pharmacy" a few months back. And more recently, you have top present photo ID and sign a log book!

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[kengr]

I suspect that you can find the recipe for meth with a google search.

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[kengr]

Well, ever since the *second* edition of The anarchist's Cookbook there hjave been that sort of recipe for almost anything illegal floating around.

A lot of the recipes get passed around from cooker to cooker, I expect.

Personally, I'd want no part of them simply from the stuff that even the "correct" recipes involve.

Fantasy I had the other night. Some agency (aliens?) starts selling on the black market little boxes that can be fed a structural formula (say via a simple computer interface. You pour stuff into the input hopper and if they have been fed enough of the right elements, the desired chemical comes out the output hopper and the "leftovers" come out the waste hopper.

Not only would this kill the war on drugs, it'd kill drug dealers and all the infrastructure clear up to the drug lords.

Of course, it'd also make controlling explosives, poisons, etc impossible as well.

Still, it's an interesting thought experiment.

Hmm. Think I'll repost this as a seperate post.