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.
I have thought that this might happen. The druggies have taken control of a good product, and have abused it to the point where law abiding people are being punished. We use sudafed regularly in our household, but because of the size of my family, I can easily see where I might be over my "quota" allowed. What am I supposed to do then?
It's all the crap they pull to feed their habit before it kills them that's annoying.
" It reminds me of the moonshine days where you couldn't buy large amounts of sugar at one time."
Once prohibition was removed in the 30's, the moonshine business wasn't as profitable. That's why some counties are still "dry" counties, even though it seems very quaint and old-fashioned. The political infrastructure in those counties can make lots of money off of illegal moonshine so there's no way they would want to make liquor legal.
They haven't done it yet in Maryland or Virginia.........but I do know it is that way in Delaware now. It's driving some of my friends with allergies up the wall.
My Mom lives on a rural road in the middle of nowhere. One night there was an explosion and a huge fire at a house - turned out to be a meth lab and no one had any idea what was going on there. Now we tell Mom she lives in the ghetto. ;^)
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How soon will it be easier to go to your local meth dealer to buy pseudoephedrine than going to the drug store? "No Mr. Twitchy, you don't understand. I don't want to buy the meth, I have a cold and just want one of your ingredients."
All the more reason to make it dirt cheap, so they don't have to rob anyone on their way to the grave.
Hell, give it away free.
just go buy 50000 rounds of ammo or 500# of gunpowder or even better try to get 5 tons of chicken crap the gubmint will find you ASAP....guaranteed
items that are potentially harmful to society have to be controlled....period
Good thinking, where was my head at?
My sources in law enforcement (I am an medically-retired cop) tell me that it's more like 80+% is brewed in the county where it's getting sold. They seldom intercept shipments of meth in the same way they intercept pot, smack, or coke.
That's what Bloomberg says, too.
Heck, both Midland and Odessa now have decon units to deal with cleaning up these places.
Considering it was in Midland where those terrorists (yes, they are confirmed members of a terrorist cell, you heard it here first) were caught buying cellphones at Wal-Mart, I suppose Decon units are nice to have, whatever the original rationale for buying them.
Remember the article that recently came out claiming that cold remedies don't work to heal colds and are therefore useless and should not be used...This is the beginning of the ban on cold remedies. Activist science followed by nanny state control.
Yes, it is "brewed" here, but in the "superlabs," which are mainly run by illegal aliens, and their ingredients come up from Mexico, according to a number of stories I've read.
Just another case of where the little people have to suffer because our government can't control drug pushers! I'm sick of it!
The government has stood the Constitution on it's head since the Roosevelt began literally dozens of unconstitutional government programs buy invoking the "interstate commerce clause" and pretending that it was written to basically void the rest of the Constitution by giving Congress the power to do literally ANYTHING that is even remotely linked to interstate commerce.
So you SUPPLY other people's sugar habits, do you?
You know you're going to get sued by someone who got fat and, one time, ate one cracker with some jelly on it.
Geez, I hadn't heard about Midland/Odessa. Perhaps they should deputize some of the locals and let 'em round them up.....
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