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How is Methamphetamine Made? The original idea for methamphetamine, also called “speed” or “crank” because of the way the drug speeds up the nervous system, came from a Japanese chemist named Nagai Nagayoshi who had been working to duplicate the energizing and stimulating properties of the ephedra plant, which had been used for over 5,000 years in traditional Chinese medicine. However, it was difficult for early chemists to create easy-to-use ways to refine methamphetamine from ephedrine, the basic

A meth lab.

What Is Methamphetamine?

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