Posted on 01/16/2006 7:50:48 AM PST by TaxRelief
WAKE FOREST, N.C. --North Carolina started enforcing its new law intended to stop the spread of methamphetamine labs on Sunday.
Since 1999 the number of meth labs in the state has skyrocketed. Then the State Bureau of Investigation busted nine labs; in 2005 they discovered 328 of them.
As of Jan. 15 you must be at least 18, show photo ID and sign a log if you want to by over-the-counter cold medicines such as Sudafed and Tylenol Cold. Both medicines contain either pseudoephedrine or ephedrine, which are key ingredients used to make meth.
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Under the new law you can only buy two packages of cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine or ephedrine at a time, and only three packages in a 30-day period.
When I was a cashier at Walmart there was a company limit. I don't know how many customers I had to tell there was a limit. It was obvious that they and their children was sick and not using the stuff to make drugs.
I made the mistake of letting a friend of a customer buy a package one time. Me and other cashiers didn't know that the registars sends e-mails to management if there is two separate Sudifed transactions in a row. Luckly we just got a written warning but I am sure there is employees fired for trying to help customers that they know isn't abusing the stuff.
And I will be filing a suitcase with sudafed every time I leave the state.
They haven't instituted customs controls at the borders. . . yet.
Winter or summer we will just build up a stash in the freezer to get us through the bad weather.
Any you really think this will help?
There are a few chemical engineering geniuses who are dopers. Every time in the last 30 years the Feds have cracked down on some ingredient in making meth, it has inspired them to come up with an even easier and cheaper method of making it without the 'crucial' ingredient.
In a year dopers won't be using Sudafed, meth will be more common and cheaper than ever, and cold sufferers will still be suffering from government stupidity.
So9
You are correct. But the states have taken their lead from the federal government. Every state in the union has far overstepped it's constitutional boundaries.
Go to Walgreens and get 2 boxes, then go to Walmart and get 2 more. Simple.
I am so upset about this. I have used Sudafed for a long time for sinuses. And it's the little people that suffer because our damn government can't control drug pushers.
And you know darn well the drug pushers will continue to get this stuff while we who really need it cannot. What a world.
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/051120/meth.shtml
the law took effect july 1st dummy and yes we have seen a massive positive effect
"In a year dopers won't be using Sudafed, meth will be more common and cheaper than ever, and cold sufferers will still be suffering from government stupidity."
BINGO.
The first step would be for Libertarians to become a major player on the political scene. Do not hold your breath waiting for that to occur.
Mmmmmmm?
And which drug, pray tell, is not abusable? Or, which substance is not abusable?
More liberties surrendered to keep people from getting high. And this will be as successful as every other measure taken in the failed war on some drugs.
"But to me it seems like a better choice than making them prescription only which is the other thing you do when a drug is abusable."
People can get "high" using rope or plastic bags. These folks frequently end up dead from suffocation (witnesss: lead singer of INXS).
Need ropes and plastic bags be regulated, too?
You can't regulate morality. Idiots are idiots.
The law takes effect January 15, 2006.
It's no surprise that you posted a bum link.
I think this is good in the long run. Stupid laws like this will turn more and more people against the War on Some Drugs. Please keep passing these idiotic laws!
Redneck meth labs don't produce enough for a massive profit. They do it in order to make enough to cover the costs and have some free for themselves.
You give these weasels far too much credit to refer to them as chemists. Most I have dealt with (professionally) can barely read and are lucky not to get themselves blown up in their (so called )"labs".
Economics suggests that if there were an easier, cheaper synthetic path with available ingredients, they'd be using it now.
The pseudoephedrine-to-meth synthesis is the most direct; it uses a variant of the Birch Reduction to reduce the -OH group on sudofed- that is all it takes.
The "superlabs" use a more complicated path involving hydroiodic acid and a phenyl ketone nicknamed P2K. The components of the P2K path are already difficult to get.
There are only a few economical ways to synthesize meth.
Likewise MDMA (Extacy)- once it became nearly impossible to get saffrole in the USA, domestic availability of E went down and it all comes from overseas now, where saffrole can be more readily obtained.
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