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As I get older, my allergies and sinuses seem to get more annoying. Part of it the awareness that cold like symptoms I always wrote off as a minor sick are actually environmentally induced. Years ago, I also found that Sudafed would help on really bad days. It never really occurred to me that something over the counter would also be a controlled substance.
Well, turns out the near microscopic little red pills can be used to make "crystal meth", the cooked up drug so popular on all the cop shows. I'm watching "Cold Case" as I type this, they had a scene with a meth lab. Chemistry making drugs from common household items, it's an urban fascination that seems to never grow old.
So, at the warehouse supply super mart today, mostly for bottled water, we got some drugs. It was good price on Sudafed and it was the real stuff ( more on that, later ). I grabbed two boxes. They would only sell me one.
Here's some logic. If you're looking to make money by risking prison or a fireball of death, chances are the higher priced name brand isn't going to really appeal to you. The active ingredient, psuedoephedrine, is available in no frills pills much cheaper. Other ingredients in the process include scraping matchbooks; seriously, how much of a concern is purity of product here?
Oh, the real stuff? Sudafed now comes in a new ( improved? ) formula, psuedoephedrine free. They call it an active ingredient for a reason. As noted before, no one is buying their name brand for street drugs. It's a weird kind of arrogance that they believe they are. And now, their product is completely different, if not useless.
Well, turns out the near microscopic little red pills can be used to make "crystal meth", the cooked up drug so popular on all the cop shows. I'm watching "Cold Case" as I type this, they had a scene with a meth lab. Chemistry making drugs from common household items, it's an urban fascination that seems to never grow old.
So, at the warehouse supply super mart today, mostly for bottled water, we got some drugs. It was good price on Sudafed and it was the real stuff ( more on that, later ). I grabbed two boxes. They would only sell me one.
Here's some logic. If you're looking to make money by risking prison or a fireball of death, chances are the higher priced name brand isn't going to really appeal to you. The active ingredient, psuedoephedrine, is available in no frills pills much cheaper. Other ingredients in the process include scraping matchbooks; seriously, how much of a concern is purity of product here?
Oh, the real stuff? Sudafed now comes in a new ( improved? ) formula, psuedoephedrine free. They call it an active ingredient for a reason. As noted before, no one is buying their name brand for street drugs. It's a weird kind of arrogance that they believe they are. And now, their product is completely different, if not useless.