Reply #15: If they waved a magic wand, completely eliminating OTC cold medicines...

[tjwash]

...that would take care of MAYBE 5% of the meth that gets made here. The junkies call the shit made from cold medicine "dirty sock dope."

The stupid fucking feds don't realize that they created the meth industry as it is run today. In the mid eighties, they tried the same thing with L-Ephedrine P, Ether, and P2P. The L-Ephed makes the "glass" that is the stuff which is easily rocked to smoke, and the P2P makes what the bikers used to call "peanut butter crank." It created a vast illegal industry, to where these materials come over the border from Mexico into Arizona, and gets trucked out to the kitchens from there. Didn't these idiots learn a damn thing from prohibition?