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March 07, 2006

Madness to Their METHod

The Patriot Act is all about fighting terrorism--right?

Apparently, then, terrorists have a lot of colds and allergies because, as the AP reports:

Besides terrorism, the bill takes aim at the production of methamphetamine, a highly addictive drug that cannot be manufactured without a key ingredient of everyday cold and allergy medicines. The bill would impose new limits next month for how much relief a person can buy over the counter.

And beginning Sept. 30, it'll take a flash of ID to buy that medication.

Now it's bad enough that they are doing this supposedly to crack down on domestic meth labs, something the federal government has no business doing anyway, but what's worse is that it doesn't do anything to solve the problem (although it does inconvenience people simply wanting to stock up for allergy season).

Oklahoma provides evidence that driving out meth labs doesn't mean getting rid of meth. Oklahoma's meth lab seizures have fallen 90 percent since April 2004, when it became the first state to ban over-the-counter sales of everyday cold and allergy medications.

"We're going to see trafficking by Mexican cartel organizations, on a much larger scale," [Sgt. Jason] Grellner [of the Franklin County, Mo., Narcotics Enforcement Unit] said.

So if the argument is that terrorists make money from selling meth, the feds have just made the risks, and therefore the potential profits, that much higher, making it that much more likely that terrorists will go into the drug business and will sell the more potent and dangerous Mexican stuff.

Posted by Mike Tennant at March 7, 2006 09:03 AM

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