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laws reducing local production haven't really stopped meth. THey have pushed it from the home manufacture to the organized crime world however.
There's a reason Mexico imports more sudafed per person than any other nation. And there's a reason meth is coming over the boarders every day.
The problem I have with this story is the problem I have with all of our drug laws.
Even presuming the woman and her son are addicts, they were definitely at the level of individual use. To me, the individual users are victims of drug abuse, and if they're addicted (and if they used meth, they are -- its' amazingly fast at addicting people) then they are suffering from a clinical disease.
The problem is that if allowing this substance into the general population is so bad (and listening to the public health people speak, it is) then by all means make it a prescription only substance, or better yet, outlaw it's import and manufacture. But we aren't doing that. We're still allowing over the counter sales, and we have ludicrous state-by-state laws on a pharmaceutical product. That's asinine!!
At the federal level make it a prescription-only medicine, as a schedule 1 controlled substance, just like methamphetamine itself is, or better yet disallow it's manufacture by any corporation registered in the USA. Work with the rest of the world's governments to get the production stopped. Levy economic sanctions against Mexico until their import numbers of pseudophedrine approach levels consistent with normal individual use of the product for it's intended purposes.
Stop hounding victims on the premise that somehow that will stop the people who are really profiting from meth -- which are the drug companies and the gangs.
There's a reason Mexico imports more sudafed per person than any other nation. And there's a reason meth is coming over the boarders every day.
The problem I have with this story is the problem I have with all of our drug laws.
Even presuming the woman and her son are addicts, they were definitely at the level of individual use. To me, the individual users are victims of drug abuse, and if they're addicted (and if they used meth, they are -- its' amazingly fast at addicting people) then they are suffering from a clinical disease.
The problem is that if allowing this substance into the general population is so bad (and listening to the public health people speak, it is) then by all means make it a prescription only substance, or better yet, outlaw it's import and manufacture. But we aren't doing that. We're still allowing over the counter sales, and we have ludicrous state-by-state laws on a pharmaceutical product. That's asinine!!
At the federal level make it a prescription-only medicine, as a schedule 1 controlled substance, just like methamphetamine itself is, or better yet disallow it's manufacture by any corporation registered in the USA. Work with the rest of the world's governments to get the production stopped. Levy economic sanctions against Mexico until their import numbers of pseudophedrine approach levels consistent with normal individual use of the product for it's intended purposes.
Stop hounding victims on the premise that somehow that will stop the people who are really profiting from meth -- which are the drug companies and the gangs.
You're talking about the best hay fever med available. That stuff they put in Sudafed boxes now is a joke. It's already difficult to find in many places. Of the three chain drugstores in Plainview, one was out and didn't know when, one had to special order out of Lubbock, and one had a limited choice.
