I could have sworn it was the match heads but it may have been the striker pads. I just remember buying several boxes of matches and having to open the batteries up to get to the lithium strips.
I suspect that this may have been the case. It seems to me that it could be easier to hold a match vertically pressed against a flat surface and use a razor blade to cut down the side of the bulge at the head to get at the phosphorous, rather than trying to scrape the coating off a flat piece of cardboard.
Strike-anywhere matches have been hard to find for most of my lifetime, not because of their use in making meth, but because they’re a fire hazard.
There’s a new drug on the street that hits you like you’ve tugged on Superman’s cape. Kids are calling it Messing with Jim.
-Ice T, Law and Order