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It seemed to decrease the number of exploding meth labs in the country: https://www.statista.com/statistics/942043/laboratory-incide...


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Zak11/08/2024

That seems to track pretty well with the rise of P2P meth. It's unlikely many people would return to setting up small labs using pseudoephedrine because large scale operations using P2P have driven the price down to the point that it wouldn't be profitable.

There might be an increase in people making tiny batches for personal use if pseudoephedrine became easier to get, but nothing on the scale of 20 years ago.

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