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but it would be worth the small burden on consumers to get rid of a substantial portion of these little small batch kitchen meth labs

With all due respect. Horsepuckey..............

I've used sudafed for over 25 years and just love the stuff. I see no reason why I should be inconvienced just comes some num nutz want to go and cook their noodle.

If you want to cook your brain its your own business. If you do a crime then lock em up and toss the key I don't care. But don't ask me to go rearanging my life on account of such critters.

How big of an inconvenience would it really be for you to have to pick it up at the pharmacy? And if you use gel caps or liquid preparations containing pseudoephedrine you could pick it up anywhere. Is that really such a great inconvenience?

I don't know. I probably buy pseudoephedrine every few years. I had the flu a while back and took some and I know it had expired a few years ago. I just don't take the stuff very often and neither does my wife. My youngest daughter still uses liquid cold medicine, so we could pick that up anywhere. We're always going to the pharmacy for something or going to WalMart where they have a pharmacy. I don't think it would bother us in the least. But I guess if you have asthma or something and take the stuff all the time it might be a minor inconvenience, although you'd still be able to get enough easily. I just don't see the big problem.

"If you do a crime then lock em up and toss the key I don't care."

If you knew what they are spending arresting these guys, litigating their cases and imprisoning them, you might care a little. My state passed anti-meth laws several years ago making it such that people busted cooking dope or possessing "paraphernalia" with intent to manufacture do long prison stints before they are eligible for parole. It doesn't really do anything for the meth problem or make any real dent in the number of meth labs but we sure are wasting a lot of time and money on these cases prior to final disposition and then we spending an awful lot of money supporting all these people, keeping a roof over their heads, keeping them fed, paying their medical and dental bills, guarding them, paying for their appeals (a good 90% aree indigent and represented by public defenders) and so on while we keep them locked up for several years after they've been convicted. A huge cut like they've seen in Oklahoma in the number of little small batch meth labs would save our state millions of dollars every year. That money is coming out of my taxes and I'm sure something similar is happening wherever you live. It is in many ways in our best interests to see the number of small batch meth labs cut way down, and the least expensive, easiest way to do that is to put the pseudoehedrine behind the counters in pharmacies.

I'm surprised there are as many people against this as there are. I've even got clients sitting in the jail on dope cooking charges who are telling me they wish legislation like this would hurry up and pass in our state because it's too easy for them and people they care about to keep cooking dope. They only wish it had of passed sooner so maybe they wouldn't be sitting where they are sitting facing some serious repercussions. It is just too easy to cook the stuff and there are people all over the place doing it. We aren't going to be able to arrest and incarcerate our way out of this problem, but we can darn sure go broke trying.