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.
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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.