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In the 1990s, the most popular way to manufacture methamphetamine was the pseudoephedrine reduction method.

Basically, this involved getting your hands on a lot of over-the-counter cold medicine like Sudafed,

crushing up the pills, and mixing the powder with a solvent to isolate the

Sudafedrin inside. You then reduced it with chemicals like iodine or red phosphorus. In just a few

hours you had methamphetamine. But before Sudafedron came into fashion,

meth cooks were limited to what's known as the P2P method. P2P stands for Fennel 2 propinone. It was the main precursor chemical used to manufacture meth.

Meth cooks, whether they were making it in a lab or a bathtub, mixed P2P with other

precursor chemicals to make the drug.

As meth game popularity in the late 70s though,

Fennel 2 propinone was classified as a controlled substance

and the common precursors like ether were tightly restricted. Chemical

companies started reporting suspicious orders to the DEA. So in 1983 when a

chemical manufacturer in New Jersey learned that an individual in Atlanta,

with no apparent connection to a laboratory or institution, had just placed an order for

15 drums of ether, they immediately contacted the DEA.

That's how Steve Peterson learned about it.

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