![]() ![]() This process requires very big chemical plants which Myanmar does not have, but India and China do. In the past, ephedrine used to be made out of the bushy plant Ephedra, but now it is entirely synthetic. These are legal and widely used substances in medicine to decongest respiratory tracts or to tackle low blood pressure. ![]() How can Myanmar, a country with approximately no indigenous pharmaceutical production, become the major supplier of a drug made out of pharmaceutical precursors?Įphedrine and pseudoephedrine are the fundamental ingredients to prepare methamphetamine. The well settled Myanmar criminal networks seem to have understood the game well: almost all South Asian methamphetamine comes directly from their country, the largest producer on earth. There is no necessity of natural precursors like opium poppies for heroin or coca trees for cocaine, nor of big spaces. Starting from commonly available pharmaceutical products it is possible to obtain the crystal-shape drug in a lab. It is mainly because it is easy and cheap to produce. Methamphetamine is making the fortune of many criminal organisations worldwide, from Mexico to the Philippines. It can be smoked, crushed and snorted, ingested or even diluted and injected. In this part of the world, most users burn it on a foil and inhale the smoke through a straw. Bright pink and vanilla-flavoured, it contains methamphetamine, the powerful and extremely addictive stimulant that has already become the main US drug problem and is now storming Asia. The drug he is speaking about looks like a common tablet and has many names in the streets of Asia: YaBa, WY and bhul bhuliya, to name a few. In only three months you see people perishing, they start losing weight consistently, they lose their teeth, become pale and nervous,” he says. ![]() “It is very quick in deteriorating your body. “I also do it sometimes for recreational use,” he says smiling while whiping off his cigarette's ashes. The more you use it, the more you need it,” says Ranjeev, in his forties, who asked to change his name to protect his identity. ![]() You just stop thinking that these are basic necessities. Nowadays many are doing it on daily basis and you can clearly see it in their eyes, in their body. When you start using it, you stop sleeping and eating. ![]()
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