“So have you started cooking meth yet?” he asked Callum. Janice snorted derisively. “You’re showing your age!” “What?” Dan could have sworn he’d seen a headline about an ice epidemic somewhere, just weeks ago. Callum said, “There’s a micro-fluidic device the size of a postage stamp that costs a hundred bucks and can synthesize at least three billion different molecules. Making it cook meth just amounts to loading the right software, and dribbling in a few ingredients that have far too many legitimate purposes to ban, or even monitor.” Dan blinked and tried to salvage some pride. “What’s a
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