As if cooking or using meth today in one of the 'slave states' is not dangerous, and as if no one bothers to do what is dangerous today.
The only reason it's worth the risk of danger to cook it is because of the incredible profit margin that the enforced scarcity imposed by the War on Some Drugs has guaranteed for it.
If the government restrained itself to its Constitutionally-authorized duties instead of trying to control what its citizens put into their bodies, mood-altering substances (other than Paxil, Zoloft, Celexa, Prozac, Adrafinil, Deprenyl, Effexor, Moclobemide, Reboxetine, Tianeptine, Lexapro, Luvox, Nortriptyline, Remeron, Serzone, Trazodone, Wellbutrin, etc, which are patented) would be available for pennies a dose, which is near their intrinsic value, and I suspect that not many people would bother with the risk of cooking meth if they couldn't demand a thousand times that price.