@SenDougOverbey and his “effective, conservative leadership”
When we last mentioned Overbey, the supposed conservative was busy trying to place undue burdens on individuals and businesses by requiring a prescription to get Sudafed BECAUSE METH!!!11one. This from a guy who touts his “effective, conservative leadership”. I guess it’s very conservative to require me to go spend additional money at a doctor’s office instead of going to the local grocer when I have a cold. Well, continuing his actual ineffective and non-conservative lack of leadership, he voted against the pro-gun bills that are advancing in the TN senate. He sided with one democrat to vote against it. Of course, he has a history of siding with democrats.
If you’d like to talk to him about this, his contact information is here.
January 30th, 2014 at 2:40 pm
On the sudafed/meth thing, I must sadly note that in Oregon at least it appears to have worked, in that it seems to have no-crap really reduced the incidence of meth labs in-state.
It hasn’t stopped anyone using speed, of course, and now it’s even more overwhelmingly imported by Mexican drug cartels.
But sadly they can point at that “real success” as a justification for yet more.
(I say I want straight pseudoephedrine OTC and by mail like it was in the early 90s, and legalize all drugs yesterday.
But Jeff Merkley ain’t ever gonna listen to a word I say…)
January 30th, 2014 at 2:50 pm
and don’t forget that siding with democrats isn’t a problem, it’s siding with stupid laws. i don’t even count Obamacare in there, as that law is saving my small company a lot of money and hassle.
January 30th, 2014 at 4:27 pm
So in other words instead of buying Sudafed in Tennessee you will have to go to NC, KY, AR, GA, or AL???
Lets look at this economically.
1. The demand for Meth is always there.
2. The demand for Meth increases as the supply decreases.
3. Price increases as supply decreases.
4. The profit margin of manufacturing meth at elevated prices will increase the number of people willing to make it. (The risk no longer outweighs the benefits.)
5. More meth cooks means more instances of crime because the cook sites become legitimate targets for other criminals.
We could just go on and on with how this is just a bad idea from the crime increase side.
This does not take into account the problems with getting it legally. Kind of a bummer to carry prescription bottles everywhere you go because the authorities are neurotic.
Not sure how thrilled I would be to end up a criminal statistic, because robbing people for a box of sudafed becomes viable.
January 30th, 2014 at 7:02 pm
I emailed him on the parks bill. I guess he doesn’t care about the gun owner vote.
January 31st, 2014 at 12:59 pm
The economical solution to the problem, since the Meth is available now and Sudafed is not, is to find a good supplier of meth and reverse engineer it back into Sudafed. Faster and cheaper than a prescription maybe.
January 31st, 2014 at 4:09 pm
It has been done. “How to make difficult to obtain sudafed from cheap, easy to get meth” or words to that effect.
February 1st, 2014 at 2:26 am
He sounds like some Texas “conservatives”. I don’t believe we have to have a prescription for Sudafed yet, though.
Meth use has decreased her but heroine use has increased…
February 1st, 2014 at 2:59 am
This is really just a way to provide the drug cartels in mexico a new industry now that pot is becoming more and more legal in states.
… after all, if we don’t ensure that the cartels have a viable market, what need would they have for the ATF’s guns?
Supply and demand……