This isn’t a “how to” question, mods, so don’t panic ;)! Robert Anton Wilson has made the claim that there is a particular chemical needed in the manufacture of cocaine (and the only use for this chemical is to make coke), and Eli Lilly is the only company in the world that produces this chemical. Wilson then goes on to make the claim that if Reagan & Co., had wanted to kill cocaine use in America, all they had to do was simply make it illegal to manufacture this chemical, but of course they wouldn’t do this because [insert drumroll here]: Bush was on the board of directors for Eli Lilly and the drug war was making him rich!
This, of course, has my BS meter going off. While I don’t remember the name of the chemical, I find it hard to believe that Lilly would be the only company manufacturing this chemical and that it would only have one use. Is there any truth to this at all?