The New Method of Making P, T P

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There's no end to the numbers of ways you can make p, t p, but they're many, many ways. All use very common chemicals that are common in the industrial world and legal industrial processes. These chemicals turn out to be extraordinarily toxic. Many of them lie syanide, sulphuric acid, hydrochloric They're many, that's just a few. There are many that ar e occasionally used for all these things. And y tcerain governments can't regulate it. So you can't stop the ire,. really hard to stop, to float, not regulate it the way you could if youad one, only one chemical that's got, like the bottle

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