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| Subject: More Anarcho-Capitalist Good News: Loophole in OZschwitz drug chemical import Mon Feb 13, 2012 3:57 am | |
| CHEMICALS used by drug gangs to manufacture amphetamines are being imported into Australia because of a loophole in federal legislation.
The ''precursor'' chemicals are being legally brought into the country from places such as China and India, even though it is illegal to possess them in most Australian states, where they are banned under a series of local laws and regulations.
The revelation comes a fortnight after NSW police made their largest ever pseudoephedrine bust - a major amphetamine precursor - seizing over half a tonne of the chemical with a street value of as much as $150 million.
Last Tuesday Victoria Police also broke up a highly sophisticated drug operation, which they said included the most sophisticated clandestine laboratory they had seen in a decade. The methamphetamine was allegedly being ''cooked'' using chemicals from overseas.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/loophole-in-drug-chemical-import-20120212-1szto.html#ixzz1mFaiHqWN
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