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Posted By: Devilmaster
11-Jan-02 - 01:10 PM
Thread Name: Maybe some one can answer this question
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LEGAL DRUGS CROSSING BRIDGE FOR ILLEGAL USE By Mike Trickey, Mark Kennedy - Southam News
The US says Canada must tighten its drug laws after millions of tablets of a cold medication - a key ingredient in the production of methamphetamine, better known as speed - were funnelled through Windsor to the US
Canadian Law does not require firms selling pseudophedrine, a chemical commonly used in cold and allergy medicines, to do checks on customers or determine final usage of the product.
Two drug operations, one in Chicago, the other, Detroit, have used the loophole to purchase tonnes in Canada from two Quebec-based firms, Frega and Formulex.
Referring to a bust last April in which American Customs seized 43 million tablets, - 12 tonnes - at the Ambassador Bridge, US Customs boss Robert Bonner said questions had to be raised about the amount of product being purchased. "There was enough decongestant in that truck to unplug every nose in Michigan for years" he said.