Back in the 70s pills were sold instead of Benzadrine or Dexadrine as they looked very much the same with a cross on it. They were made to look that way on purpose and sold in the backs of comic books and magazines by the thousand. Take two and feel your skin crawl..check out that headache! I can check with the chemists but I believe that meth is easy enough to make from fairly easily obtained and inexpensive base chemicals that using commerical pills as a starter would not be economical. It's a dangerous process but not a hard one. The meth the State students were making way back when smelled just like styrofoam. Are you sure they're making "methamphetamine" and not just concentrating pseudo-ephedrine into a crystaline form? Now, that would be some pretty dangerous stuff if it was mis represented and sold to someone with no common sense. Meth isn't especially dangerous..it's the no common sense part that's dangerous. BTW, that was the herb- ephedra. [not ephedrine] I'm surprised that Foxglove digitalis hasn't made the menu. Ode
At 08:40 AM 8/23/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > >> Is there a difference between the herb ephedrine and the synthesized >> chemical ephedrine..as in the analog chemical pseudo-ephedrine used for >> cold pills ..by big bucks 'over the counter' interests who are always >> trying to get drugs approved so you don't have to get an expensive >> prescription from the big bucks medical establishment? [and sold 'as' >> methamphetamine by unscuplulous dealers to people who don't know the >> difference between a cold pill, meth, caffine pills and any other form of >> stimulant] > > >Here in SEK there are tons of little meth labs out in the rural areas. >They actually use the pseudophed tablets as part of the base of the >meth, mixed with various chemicals into a soup that is then crystalized >into meth. So they don't sell the cold pills instead of meth, they use >them in producing meth. Its one of the main ingredients. Thats why >those of us with legitimate allergic type need for pseudophed, or its >cheaper copycat versions, can only buy 24 or so at a time now - which I >often go through in 4 days, and is much more expensive than when I used >to be able to buy a bottle of 96 or more of them. Frustrating. Plus, >you have to buy it at the pharmacy window - its not on the shelves, so >you have to stand in line for fifteen minutes or so to get the stuff. >And if you're back within a week, which i am during allergy season, they >look at you real funny and ask questions. Groan. Joy > > > >-- >The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > >Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > >To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > >Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > >List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > >
