i have to be 18 to buy heet?!? Answered

really?
that explains the control over it

Welcome to the unintended consequences of the war on (some) drugs. Heet is used in the "ten thousand little superfund sites" method. Incidentally, the home brew toxic waste dump is itself an unintended consequences of tightly controlling another precursor. Oh and you can't get solid iodine anymore without being on a government list and you can't buy more than X amount of cold medicine for the same reason.

Seems all this regulation thats an inconvenience to normal people has done very little to combat the cost or availability on the black market. Someone google up the definition of insanity for me again, please?

Meanwhile, Adderall and Ritalin are still highly prescribed medications for ADHD (or what ever people are calling it this week). They're essentially the same stuff.

I'm not supporting illicit drug use, I just want my damn country back.

what do you mean by "ten thousand little superfund sites method" ? it seems everything is being regulated now, in the end i just went to lowes and picked up a large can of denatured alcohol. Its funny walmart wouldn't let me buy this tiny bottle of heat but at lowes buying an entire gallon I didn't even get a glance :|

I don't know the exact method, but it has to do with lye and stove fuel and sudifed, and the whole drug lab can be easily assembled at home. Thus there are many many clandestine labs and they all produce toxic waste. None of that waste likely gets properly disposed of properly.

The DEA will pat themselves on the back for shutting down the big producers by adding tight restrictions to a few chemicals, but utterly fail to take responsibility for what I call "ten thousand little superfund sites"

Then they've tried a bunch of ways to mitigate the damage from their earlier misguided policies. Off the top of my head:

   Prohibiting sudifed from being sold in anything besides "push pill through foil packaging"

  Criminal charges (with possible jail time) if you buy too much cold medicine within a certain amount of time.

  Total removal of the useful OTC drug phenylpropanolamine, based on crappy science, because it's also a useful precurser.

   Discontinuation of the homemade soap and homemade biodiesel makers favorite product, "Red Devil Lye"

  Elimination of Iodine sales (unless you want to be on another government list). This killed products like Polar Pure, a water purification system I find extremely useful in my Homeland Defense emergency kit.

Also, you might try local gas stations. Mal-wart is a little overprotective for publicity reasons. Smaller stores may not give a damn.

If they do, try bringing your stove (It's lightweight, right) to show the sales clerk.

There may be a law about the issue, or it may just be a request from the DEA. I'm having minor supply issues getting pure lye for the same reason. (bio-diesel)

Also, you might try local gas stations. Mal-wart is a little overprotective for publicity reasons. Smaller stores may not give a damn.

If they do, try bringing your stove (It's lightweight, right) to show the sales clerk.

There may be a law about the issue, or it may just be a request from the DEA. I'm having minor supply issues getting pure lye for the same reason. (bio-diesel)

exactly, but some small oneze convience stove probably won't be worring about getting sued, my local hobby shop sells me spraypaint, and i get all sorts of epoxy from lowes.

Im betting this is a new trend that bigger stores are starting, and will soon affect all stores. 

:(
saddening

agreed....also... with the ease of creation and the massive consumption of bathtub meth they've had to lock down a lot of chemicals

Hmm, if its only walmart maybe i could try a convience store.
walmart is a big chain so if you sue them you could make ALOT of $
they are covering themselves.

wellmenthol alcohol is toxic by nature, and that is the only ingredient in heet.  so by drinking heet you could kill yourself, I think that its just because it is flammable

It's only toxic if you don't filter it.  Flammability is also a good reason to withhold sales to younger kids. 

Underage drinking is one thing but burnt alive at 10, that's a serious issue.

You're thinking of "denatured alcohol" (as we call it in the states)

That is mostly ethyl alcohol that's been adulterated with something to make it poisonous, for tax reasons.

These homeless you talk of seem to be trying to filter out the poison to save money. I've been told that the method really does not work, and they are slowly killing themselves, but have no first hand knowledge.

The stuff he's talking about here is pure menthol alcohol

Laser pointer or something else? I've heard about lots of restrictions on 5mW+ pointers (illegal here), but if it was, say, just a laser diode I wouldn't think there would be any problems.

:S! If I want lasers, I think I need to but them now before things gets real bad... :(

Hmm... well then... I dunno. I really hope there's some way to get a couple hundred mW over here...

Was it walmart that denied you?
our government, is slowly turning into a comunism.
pretty soon there will be a drinking age for energy drinks.  you just watch. ;)  

believe it or not, the whole age for energy drink thing, yeah, its happened to me

-_-' 

WHAT!?!?! noooo! I cant live without my monster!

Don't worry, Im sure you will be old enough to drink energy drinks when the age restriction comes in :)

i know right, lol. 

I never knew there was even such a thing as caffinated mints!

thats so funny!

.  A LOT of things have REALLY changed since you were a teen. ;)

Sounds like a good reason to close your eyes when you bend over...

Musical knees - I have those.

If they're on form, my ankles, knees, thumbs, wrists, elbows and shoulders make standing up sound like a tap-dance over cockroaches.

Is it in poor taste for an 18-year old to make the same complaint? 

Poor taste, no, but I'd take my joints to a doctor...

I agree, and i have. It is just tension from a physically demanding employment and a broken down mattress. 

Ah - my result was "it's your age", and the doctor is older than me!

Were a doctor to not be older than I am, I would be slightly concerned as to the status of the current health care system... 

GLITTER GLUE?!
Do they think the 7 year olds are going to get high off of that?!
Jeez pretty soon you wont be able to buy white out without a liscence.

I guess so!
It's ridiculous.