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I don't care. I was buying one box of it, not their entire stock. If it doesn't require a prescription then the vendor doesn't require my identity.

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But federal regulation says it does.

Smurfing is the practice of sending several people out to buy pseudoephedrine just a box or two at a time at a bunch of different stores. These federal id tracking requirements are an attempt to curb that.

As others have said, how much does that really curtail the meth making in this country? I'd be surprised if it's over .1%. So everyone else has to jump through hoops so the agencies can claim a hollow victory. This type of thinking is rampant in the US and it gets so tiring.

Hard to say, but it forced Walt to use other methods like using phenylamine as a pre-cursor, which was a lot harder to come by. To get that you will need to have contact with some big corp and rob a train or something so barrier of entry is much higher.

Has anyone ever looked into the real effect laws like these this have? It's never really bothered me having to produce ID, but after thinking about it, I am curious as to how much these laws really help.

>But federal regulation says it does.

Yes. Regulation can be BS too.

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