Why Did the Government Make Pseudoephedrine, Over the Counter Drug, When There Are Other Meth Ingredients?

Published May 13, 2010

I wasn’t getting the answers I wanted on the last question. I understand that meth is bad and the government wanted to make it harder to get a lot of Sudafed or what have you, to help the fight to reduce meth production (you can argue if this would even help, but that is not important to me).

Basically, I know that the common way to make Meth is a combination of pseudoephedrine and red phosphorus (usually from red phosphorus matches) and iodine (ok this one you have to keep, I guess). They were all Class-1 chemicals before the Patriot Act which means that you had to control the production and distrubution of the chemical in the process of making it, and show caution when selling the product in large quantities. So why target Sudafed and not the matches, we have better matches today than the red phosphorus matches, but there are people who borderline need Sudafed for nasal congestion issues.

So I ask you, does anyone know why they targeted pseudoephedrine?

Why Did the Government Make Pseudoephedrine, Over the Counter Drug, When There Are Other Meth Ingredients?

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