Nitric acid is already pretty hard to get. Its an industrial chemical used to clean aluminum among other things, we will have to find a way to not choke it off, but restrict it from the garage bullet maker.

If its shipped in, we can prevent it. or better yet, we can prevent it from even getting here. Other countries do it. I lived in India, till 1990 we could not get anything made outside India there. Industrial raw materials - same thing.
The same thing happens with drugs - lots of countries in south america and other places make lots of it. Its not getting smuggled in via ships. It come via tunnels from mexico. Which will still be open for business, and they'd be bringing bullets ... I have already said that, they will bring in bullets instead of drugs, we just trade 1 problem for the other.

Now drugs come in, and guns and ammo goes out, that tunnel gets used 2 X, instead we'd just see it used 1 time.

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Srinath.

rfw2003 wrote on 04/16/13 at 16:50:39:


Yes and so was ephedrine ... In fact look up a 1903 sears catalog, you could have bought heroin off the pages ...
Mary jane is easy to grow ... it will grow in nearly all states. We still dont have people growing these ... OK we do, but they just smoke it and not cause the street to get flooded.

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Srinath.

You again are dodging the issue. Nitric acid may be easy to get now. heroin was easy to get 100 years ago. It dont mean it cant be choked off.
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Srinath.

houstonbofh wrote on 04/16/13 at 23:57:10:


Heroin is also very expensive now. Sears catalog heroin was a pint sized  or maybe even bigger bottle full for $1 (of course it was a 1903 $1).
OK here is the best answer I got in a google -

Several stores (including Sears and Roebuck) and catalogues sold heroin as a cough suppressant and alternative to morphine, though heroin is actually more dangerous. They sold a heroin syringe, two needles, and a carrying case for $1.50.

Yea cough suppresant ... yup. I'd guess pint bottle - I have seen it in a antique shop framed if I recall a few years ago.

Regulating and controlling it will cause a squeeze effect and drive up prices. The side effect is the fact its used in may many things while heroin is not. We'd just have to have factories that are legit get it and the ones that are not get choked out. The bullet makers will love this though ... they can make more $ off each bullet, and the govt makes tax $ off each sale to private individuals.
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Srinath.

houstonbofh wrote on 04/17/13 at 20:48:21:


He never has one and now that you have brought up tangible facts that interfere with his dream world he is going to go into deflect and tangent mode.

srinath wrote on 04/18/13 at 05:50:36:

Not true.  Heroin is a powder at room temperatures.  It can be a suspension, but even in water that takes some heat.  As a matter of fact, what you are probably mistakenly referring to is Laudanum, which was also known as "Tincture of Opium."  By this time the relative strengths, both then and now, are impossible to guess.  That is why both then and now so many people overdosed and the same amount they always take.

srinath wrote on 04/18/13 at 20:42:05:

As long as it is a credible source...    

Heroin and other opiates are stored in dark containers for stability. And turn of the 20th century mail order was powder. In brown glass jars or bottles. There was a doctor's office on our property from before the War of Northern Aggression to sometime in the 1890s. We've dug up plenty of old drug vials here to see how products were packaged.

Brown glass with a rubber lined metal cap. Have dug up opiate vials, arsenic and strychnine compounds, brass syringes, etc.