by Allan Wall, Mexico News Report, ©2024
(Jul. 19, 2024) — According to the Mexican Navy, the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) cartel are now producing precursor chemicals in order to produce methamphetamine.
It’s been estimated that there are 100 ways to concoct methamphetamine. Formerly in Mexico, they used ephedrine as the principal precursor, but the Mexican government got stricter on ephedrine, so they switched to the P2P and methylamine method.
The Mexican meth producers imported P2P and methylamine from China, but now they don’t need to, because they found ways to concoct these chemicals themselves with pre-precursor chemicals.
These pre-precursors are substances used for other purposes, such as cleaning products, petrochemicals, food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. They are called dual-use chemicals.
Currently this doesn’t apply to fentanyl, because its pre-precursors don’t have so many dual legal uses.
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