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Re:Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s mos... by trhway on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @06:51PM (#29088586)
The meth is ADHD medicine. Nobody is going to make it at home if it is made easy available. If society develops a reasonable culture of it's consumption we probably would see a boost of productivity and creativity instead of the growth of the wasteful prison industrial complex.

>These radical criminal businessmen began as Communist partisans and Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, and were sent to Guangdong province in southeast China for re-education in the 1960s and ’70s.

Must be something in the communist Kool aid. Disproportionate share of the Russian businessmen of 199x with all it's ruthlessness, illegallity and violent crimes, raiding and takeovers came straight from the Young Communist organization bureaucracy.

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Re:Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s mos... by cgh on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @06:56PM (#29088636)
My guess is supply would be constrained because of how addictive it is. You’d still end up with street-level dealers selling it. I could be wrong but it’s hard to see how cheap, legal, easily-available meth can lead to anything but an addiction crisis.
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Re:Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s mos... by pas on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @07:14PM (#29088805)
It's already that. It's already unimaginably bad thanks to it being shunned into the shadows where most users are hidden, left behind to be eaten alive by their worst impulses.

https://www.econtalk.org/sam-quinones-on-meth-fentanyl-and-t...

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