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But thats only part of the story

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Its basically a very long investigative journalist magazine article

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Sometimes the author can inflate his own selfimportance such as when he tries to inject way too much drama into his visit to china

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It turns out that these are now largely the product of semilegal factories in china

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The way the game works is that western countries outlaw various drugs and precursors but china lags behind

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And then the game of whackamole continues as chemists come up with new things that get around the new laws

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Its tempting to think that this is a deliberate plan to corrupt and weaken the west but the author feels that its mostly a matter of money

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The chinese government actually provides subsidies and tax incentives for making many of these dubious items