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To stop the problem, you need to attack the whole problem: raw ingredients, cookers, distributors, and consumers. The long-term stable answer is to go after the "precursor chemicals" that go into pseudoefedrine. They're made at only a small number of factories around the world. You can control that in the same way that they control opiates. Each country only gets to buy as much as they actually need for their legitimate medicinal needs.


And exactly how many examples exist of this strategy ever working for any other contraband in the USA?

Zero.

Much better to simply unleash the USA's army of lawyers and bureaucrats onto the problem: legalize, productize, and regulate the heck out of it. This would result in safer meth on the street, far fewer home-brew stills for the junk, and sufficient profits to pay for the cremations.

Cheers