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Re:CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they'... by quickthrowman on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @08:19PM (#38007587)
> I mean we can see a demonstrable and quantifiable MASSIVE decrease in meth usage and overdose circa 2005 when the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act went into effect.

It’s now synthesized in industrial sized cartel owned labs in Mexico using Chinese precursors and smuggled into the US, there’s no reason to keep pseudoephedrine restricted when it’s easier and cheaper to just buy the plentiful and cheap meth on the street.

Re:CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they'... by Fatnino on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:54PM (#38008615)
Cheap meth can't compete with free shop lifted ingredients in homemade meth.