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Originally Posted by WallShadow
The drug cartels may have lots of guns, but what happens when the market for their prime product drops into the cellar? What would they turn to to maintain their strength and their hold on the people under their sway? Here's an ironic switch--the chemists switch over to manufacturing pharmaceuticals. Heroin, morphine, and cocaine, of course, but what would they need to start production runs of aspirin, acetaminophen, sulfa, and other badly-needed and highly-prized and highly-priced medical drugs?
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I know aspirin is easy to make if you have a supply of willow trees (and even chewing the willow bark has a pain-relieving effect -- the Cro-Magnons even used that remedy). Don't know about the rest.