So make it a prescription drug and buy off the pseudoephedrine manufacturers with cash and tax breaks. It would be cheaper in the long run and is in keeping with our government’s predilection to corruption and special deals.
They took phenylpropanolamine completely off the market so that clanlabs couldn’t make U4EA (4-methylaminorex), and most people these days have never even heard of U4EA or 4-methylaminorex. Or miss phenylpropanolamine as a prescription or OTC drug.
They took phenylpropanolamine off of the market because it was a bad drug. Many reported cases of hypertensive emergency and strokes.