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Because of asshole governments that wage beyond-insane wars on drugs?

There's much insanity and cruelty that's done in the name of fighting drug use.

I don't think restricting sale of medicine that is often used to make methamphetamine is one of them. Back when it was over the counter, how much of the profit from selling pseudoephedrine decongestants was really profit from selling a meth precursor?

Private profits from legal meth seems like a problem any society has to deal with.

Lol they did not buy the precursor, they stole it.

Had this same conversation with someone missing a number of teeth, they reported that chicken feed contains pseudoephedrine and is able to be collected by using a piece of wood as a capillary sieve.

I had a conversation in around 1992 with someone missing a number of teeth who claimed that AIDS probably came from mutated molecules of latex rubber in "those damned condoms".

https://erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/chickenfeed.htm...

"A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudoephedrine From N-Methylamphetamine" https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume19/v19i3/Pse...

Or because of asshole manufacturers of illegal and dangerous drugs?

Porque no los dos?

Did it prevent meth usage? Meth production just moved to Mexico and became more potent as the production was industrialized. Overdoses increased, addiction rates increased.

Poor law with no thought process behind it. I think there is still push to make prescription only as well.

I have a friend in law enforcement, and he claims that their crackdown on meth labs where he worked (Indiana), even before the Sudafed restrictions, was not to reduce supply. Even in Indiana in the early aughts, most of the street drugs came from Mexico. Rather it was due to the hazard that the meth labs caused to the surrounding area (not to mention financial issues with remediating property that had been so used).

Yes

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