How to make methamphetamine.

• Author: Stansell, Jim
• Position: Letters

Editor:

Your article on page 9 in the July/August issue of State Legislatures discusses how stone states are trying to prevent the manufacture of methamphetamine. In the accompanying box titled "Everything but the Kitchen Sink ...," Drano is listed as containing sulphuric acid ([H.sub.2]S[O.sub.4]). In fact, Drano is at the opposite end of the pH scale in that the active ingredient is sodium hydroxide (NaOH), more commonly known as lye.

I don't know whether the manufacture of methamphetamine requires sulphuric acid or lye, but I do know that Drano does not contain sulphuric...