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I am not suggesting that we ban psuedoephedrine, or anything else for that matter. All I am suggesting is that we put it behind the counters in pharmacies to make it more difficult for people to go all over town buying or stealing it from this store and that store collecting enough to go out and cook batches of dope. People would still be able to get psuedoehedrine, it's just that for some psuedoephedrine products they'd have to go to the pharmacy counter. That's not such a big deal. But in Oklahoma meth lab seizures are down about 80% since they enacted those laws. It's working.

Look, there are not that many things that can be converted into meth. The reason all the little kitchen meth cooks use psuedoephedrine is because that's the one thing left that isn't controlled and/or prohibitively expensive. I think it would be possible for people to grow ephedra and then extract ephedrine from the plants, but that would be a hell of an involved process that would take too long, require too much work, and end up costing too much in the long run for most of these people out there cooking up all the small batches dope in their homes, hotels, or wherever they can find a place to cook up a batch.

As we can see with Oklahoma's results, putting psuedoephedrine tablets behind pharmacy counters substantially reduces the number of little small batch kitchen meth labs. They saw an 80% drop and instead of seeing more people go to prison for cooking dope, they saw a huge drop in drug lab arrests. That's good all the way around. Why you get your feathers ruffled over something like this is beyond me.

Look, there are not that many things that can be converted into meth. The reason all the little kitchen meth cooks use psuedoephedrine is because that's the one thing left

I'm happy crank cooks have dropped 80% in Oklahoma. But, it's only temporary. I could list dozens more things that can be converted into meth. I won't for obvious reasons. They will find the next one soon enough.

All those little kitchen meth cooks were using phenylpropanolamine, (diet pills) before it was controlled and they switched to psuedoephedrine. Now the once $1.79 a bottle diet pills are going for $150.00 a bottle on TV.

Control always leads to higher prices. I'll admit I don't know what the solution is to this meth problem, but someone needs to come up with a better plan. We had far fewer using speed when you could buy bennies at truck stops. Strict drug control has given us an increase in users and an increase in violent crime...The same as alcohol prohibition.
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