First they came for people with the sniffles . . .
Governor Haslam expected to sign sudafed tracking system into law. Yes, a sudafed registry.
Kent Williams gets it right:
“This is a feel-good piece of legislation,” said Williams, adding that Kentucky approved a similar bill a year ago and “it has done absolutely nothing to control meth labs.”
This is what you do instead of something.
May 13th, 2011 at 9:28 am
Iowa has had a sudafed registry for several years. As far as I know meth is still around and the only people stopped from getting the cold meds are the people that actually need them!
May 13th, 2011 at 9:31 am
Useless laws, written by useless people. yay.
May 13th, 2011 at 10:04 am
Ohio has the same law. It sucks.
May 13th, 2011 at 10:22 am
Yeah, making me feel like a criminal for buying effective decongestants deters Skeeter from making meth in the trunk of his Corvaire.
May 13th, 2011 at 10:23 am
Illinois has one of these damnable laws as well. I don’t care if it costs me my job, if I ever meet the jackass who put our law together I will empty my sinuses on his lapels.
May 13th, 2011 at 10:32 am
Minnesota has one of these laws, too. Sooner or later, they’ll get around to lithium batteries, as these too are used in meth synthesis.
May 13th, 2011 at 10:52 am
North Carolina has the same law. It pisses me off every time I have to sign that crap.
Of course, now all the meth is coming from the failed narco-terrorist state of Mexico.
Gee do you think there is any connection between restrictions on Sudafed in the US and the growth of the meth industry in Mexico?
May 13th, 2011 at 11:05 am
Another feel good law. Well unless you have a cold and are trying to think…. Maybe we should start calling Haslam by his professional name. Dr. Feelgood..
May 13th, 2011 at 2:06 pm
John Richardson +++. We have that stupid law in Oregon, have had it for several years now, and all it did here was put the meth cooks outside the Oregon enforcement sphere, so all Oregonians can do now is watch everyone else farge up the enforcement effort.
May 13th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Went to buy sudafed yesterday. Was asked for my ID to verify age. Handed them a government issued ID card which was not a drivers license (and did not have my address on it). Was told this was Not Acceptable and I Had To Have A Driver’s License. Ugh.