Meet Crystal Meth

Tags: Interventionism, Value and Exchange, Health, Legal System, War and Foreign Policy

01/20/2011 Mark Thornton

Crystal meth is a horrible drug, but it is also a cheap date, the poor man’s cocaine. During cocaine’s heyday, meth was nearly extinct on the illegal market. Then came the war on cocaine, writes Mark Thornton.

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