I don't know if they still have it, but in England they used to have a cold remedy, Dr. J. Collis Browne, that was sold over the counter that had a tincature of morphine as one of its ingrediants.
Dating myself, this goes back to the mid-s 70's, and Lord knows I would never try it, and it was legal, and the statute of limitations has run of I brought some back to the U.S., which of course, i never would have done.
But talk about your cold medicine, that deserved the fucking Nobel Prize for Medicine, not that I would know, because I would never do it, and it was legal and the statute of limitations ran, and I wouldn't do it.
Posted By: xfean
the cold medicine that many stores carry now is not as effective as the ones with pseudoephedrine
Meth dealers use technology meant to curb epidemic
'Where else can you make a 750 percent profit in 45 minutes?' expert says of purchases
ST. LOUIS — At the height of the methamphetamine epidemic, several states turned to a new weapon to disrupt the drug trade: electronic systems that could track sales of the cold medicine used to make meth.
Tracking sales by computer allowed pharmacies to check instantly whether a buyer had already purchased the legal limit of pseudoephedrine — a step that was supposed to make it harder to obtain raw ingredients for meth.
But an Associated Press analysis of federal data reveals that the practice has not only failed to curb the meth trade, which is growing again after a brief decline. It also created a vast and highly lucrative market for profiteers to buy over-the-counter pills and sell them to meth producers at a huge markup.
In just a few years, the lure of such easy money has drawn thousands of new people into the methamphetamine underworld.
"It's almost like a sub-criminal culture," said Gary Boggs, an agent at the Drug Enforcement Administration. "You'll see them with a GPS unit set up in a van with a list of every single pharmacy or retail outlet. They'll spend the entire week going store to store and buy to the limit."
Inside their vehicles, the so-called "pill brokers" punch out blister packs into a bucket and even clip coupons, Boggs said.
In some cases, the pill buyers are not interested in meth. They may be homeless people recruited off the street or even college kids seeking weekend beer money, authorities say.
