While this policy can help with downsizing drugs. Some chemicals can be used for malicious purposes and other uses aren't. Cough drops are a common ingredient for methamphetamine but it's also used for colds of course. People are being taxed over something caused by fugitives, the drug problem. These chemicals can be used to make medicine imagine the price to get the treatment you need because the medicine you take has an ingredient to make drugs. because its taxed.
Positive affects will cause people who manufacture drugs to have to buy less amount of the chemicals due to the rise of prices, which will allow less product to be sold. The dealers who buy the drugs to sell them will have to raise the price causing it to be no longer affordable for those who buy drugs.