meth

1. The reason why it is so hard to get decent over the counter meds for your freaking hayfever. 2. Crack for rural and suburban white people.

1. Drug companies took pseudoephedrine out of their cold and allergy remedies because of the abuse of the drug. Common cold meds were being cooked down to extract pseudoephedrine, the backbone of crystal meth. Pseudoephedrine is now a semi-controlled substance sold behind the counter at the pharmacy which must be signed for by the purchaser and formally documented by the seller.
2. Crystal meth is doing for the suburbs and the trailer parks what crack did for the inner city: screw up lives, lower property values, exponentially increase criminal activity, and threaten future stability. The difference between crack and crystal meth is that the "powers that be" don't live in the inner city, they live in the suburbs, so they don't want the police "watching this group of people develop their manufacturing and distribution activities for the last five years", they raise hell until something gets done about it. Being that they are the "powers that be", something actually gets done.

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