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by robotbikes 37 days ago
And I thought for a second they were talking about peer to peer meth but no that's what the DEA shut down by tightly controlling pseudoephedrine, where before meth using meth makers were making meth and distributing it.

It certainly seems like prohibition is just making things worse and making it more lucrative for the least ethical of black market producers.

Similar situation with fentanyl when compared to previous opiates.

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> that's what the DEA shut down by tightly controlling pseudoephedrine, where before meth using meth makers were making meth and distributing it.

Phosphorus-ephedrine meth, aka shake-and-bake.

> It certainly seems like prohibition is just making things worse and making it more lucrative for the least ethical of black market producers.

I don't think P2P meth is any worse than what came before it. Prohibition is making things somewhat worse here for legal access to pseudoephedrine, though.

Ha, funny. I thought it must be “p2p mesh” network architecture at first, then checked the comments and was like “oh p2p distributed meth?” Like you, hahaha
I thought it was going to be metaphor about exploiting a peer to peer network
Almost like the war on drugs is making my community a WORSE place to live!!!