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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 pseudafed, 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 Sudophedrine came into fashion,

meth cooks were limited to what's known as the P2P method. P2P stands for phenyl-2 propanone.

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 gained popularity in the late 70s, though,

phenyl-2 propanone 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.

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