Campaign Warns Mainers Not To Buy Pseudoephedrine For Meth Makers
1.11.2018 – Mal Leary, Maine Public
Illegal methamphetamine makers often turn to college students and others to buy pseudoephedrine for them to make drugs in their home labs. Carlos Gutierrez, vice president of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, says it’s a practice that law enforcement calls “smurfing.”
“That’s basically the act of purchasing pseudoephedrine, knowing or unknowingly on behalf of another individual who makes methamphetamine out of it,” he says.
In Maine and many other states, smurfing is a crime, punishable by years in prison.
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