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Thanks, but I'm stickin' with Sterno! ;)

Gawd! I can't believe people ingest this stuff! Ever seen photos of someone with "Meth Mouth?" Eewww! Call me vain, but I love my teeth too much, and have spent too much money on them to be an addict. *SHIVER*

As for banning stuff...it'll work just as well as anything else they've "banned" for the common good.

If Sudafed is outlawed, only Outlaws will have Sudafed. And they WILL find a way to get it. It'll just go underground. In fact, I'm sure some drug warlord is already pulling together a plan to keep the supply coming.

"If Sudafed is outlawed, only Outlaws will have Sudafed. And they WILL find a way to get it. It'll just go underground. In fact, I'm sure some drug warlord is already pulling together a plan to keep the supply coming."

That's true. There will still be meth labs. The big labs out west and in Mexico will still have their illicit sources, but it would cut way down on the number of little small batch kitchen meth labs and that would be a huge benefit at least where I live. These aren't big labs producing huge amounts of dope going through barrels and barrels of chemicals and incredible amounts of pseudoephedrine they buy in large quantities from illicit suppliers who wouldn't come anywhere near the average tweaker on the street. These are little tiny operations often producing just two or three grams or maybe a little more per batch.

These little labs are getting busted all the time where I live. If every week we are getting new meth lab or possession of paraphernalia with intent to manufacture cases then you can there are a lot more out there who aren't getting caught. I've handled a ton of these cases and I'm always getting new ones. Usually, they are only cooking up small amounts but there are several people involved gathering the pseudoephedrine and other chemicals and doing thing like scraping the strike pads off of matchbooks to get the red phosphorous. These little helpers that are always involved are helping out for free or cheap dope.

The people involved with these little small batch meth labs seem to be those becoming the worst addicts in town. If these people had to pay full price for their dope a lot of them wouldn't ever do it enough to become addicts. With these little meth labs we always seem to have four or five people hanging around getting free or extra cheap dope and with that they are able to pretty much stay high which increases dramatically the chance that they'll become addicted. It also increases the numbers of incidents we see where people do completely crazy things because they've been tweaking for days without sleep and they've become irrational and paranoid and in many cases started hallucinating. These little meth labs fuel a lot of the real problem use around here and I'd like to see the number of them diminish significantly. An 80% drop like they've seen in Oklahoma would be great.