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To: HiTech RedNeck
The drug warriors believed that people were manufacturing methamphetamine from the white phosphorous which lit the things up.

Hence - no more. Can't tell you why we won't be able to buy incandescent light bulbs soon or why we can't move on our highways without encountering some sort of roadblock, but it is the same thing.

46 posted on 12/31/2011 2:51:08 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper

People must have had some pretty powerful monkeys on their backs to want something made out of match heads and cold tablets, and certainly that’s the point of stupidity to me — but that said the profit angle on the ban is such that production just went to Mexico without hardly one hiccup in the supply in the States.


50 posted on 12/31/2011 2:55:55 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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