This story is right out of “Breaking Bad”. Which is must see tv.
And they check my ID and write my name in a book when I need a few measly pills for cold relief.
Unless and until the demand for such mind emptying drug abuse is addressed, all this prohibition will be in vain.
The practical upshot, as it has been for years, will be that needed uses of the drugs will be increasingly hard to approve, while the leaks to abuse will continue at maddening levels.
If I make baseball bats, I’m not responsible for the people who use them to mug other people.
Mexican Meth is killing Americans and wreaking havoc throughout our country. I don’t see a lot of difference between selling the Cartels pseudoephedrine in 2017 and selling bullets to the Germans in 1941.
I’ll remember this story when people express surprise & dismay when I refuse to kneel before our corporate overlords.
I wonder if the Big Pharma companies are breaking any laws?
Certainly a Libertarian would argue that Big Pharma should have a legal right to provide ingredients to the Cartels; but that’s to be expected from those types.
It won’t be long before drug laws are relaxed enough so that Mexican Cartels like Sinoloa will be decent respectable tax paying corporations here in the US.
Meanwhile, various laws restrict the amounts of cough syrup, et al. that we can purchase.
I have been saying, and will continue to say, that if you want to save lives, we should be droning the Cartels, not ISIL.
95 People a day die from Opiod abuse, and a bunch more die from Meth.
That is a lot more every year than we lose through terrorism. And the money saved will be felt right at home. The return on investment from your average drone strike would be massive.
The chemicals in the Manzanillo raid had been manufactured by a company in China.Precursors bound for Mexico have also been manufactured as far afield as Iraq, India and the Central African Republic, according to the International Narcotics Control Board.
The chemicals are often imported by seemingly legitimate front companies, making the search more difficult. In April, the U.S. Treasury blacklisted 12 companies in Mexico it accused of bringing in precursors to make meth.
Mexican meth production goes on speed
Phil's footnote: For years stories emerge of tons of Chinese precursors flowing to Mexican superlabs for trade extending into CONUS. Examples of DOJ/DEA collusion "for intelligence" with cartels abound.
Pain as a vital sign was a bad idea and was pushed by many.
When they first patented pseudoephedrine, they patented 2 versions. One version was a corkscrew shaped molecule that had a right handed twist shape, the other had a left handed twist. As decongestants, there was no difference. They were equal in effectivity. Here’s the rub. One can be further processed to create methamphetamine, the other can’t. The drug company decided it would be more cost effective to use the version that had dual functionality rather than the one that could only be used a a decongestant.
PING!!!
Article and comments, esp #1
The pharmaceutical manufacturers have been complicit in the epidemic we are now facing
Thanks, LTC.Ret
Both companies mentioned, Sterop and Andacon, are Belgium companies. Since their government believes in open borders and the destruction of countries, it should surprise on one that these companies should care what happens to humans around the globe.
It seems to me that Cartels have enough money the manufacture their own ingredients.
Guess where all the opium is grown? Just down the street from the MOAB we dropped... can’t have supply lines pinched now can we?
Veterinarians get roped in on the issue because they have access to a wide range of meds that can and do get diverted and misused. On the larger issue, several pharma companies in the US stoked opioid sales through cooked up studies, medical journal articles, and presentations to doctors that downplayed the risks of addiction. Doctors were misled into thinking that newer types of opioids could be safely prescribed to more patients — and the result was a surge of new addicts who were first hooked by their doctors. A full on legislative attack on the problem would include investigation of that misconduct by pharma companies so as to lead to civil suits and potential criminal prosecution of those responsible.