The measure that failed last week limited sales of meth ingredients, made buyers sign a log book, and charged a fee for convenience stores to sell and log the stuff. The new “common sense” bill says screw it, convenience stores can’t sell it at all. Pharmacies only, log all sales, and no fee for participation. Betcha a dollar it passes this time. Las Vegas Sun has the story.
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Nevada ready to try anti-meth bill again
Published by May 28th, 2007 in Legislation and Meth in the News. 0 CommentsFederal legislation: Candy meth would double penalties
Published by May 23rd, 2007 in Legislation. 0 Comments
Under the proposed “Stop Marketing Illegal Drugs to Minors Act” (would that be SMIDMA? Awfully close to SMEGMA. We need more advertising people in Congress), dealers and manufactures making meth more attractive to young people by flavoring it would face double penalties. Story at Arkansas News Bureau. More on this later. But really — is it POSSIBLE to make meth attractive?
According to the Birmingham News, an anti-meth law put in place there in 2004, similar to the one just cut down in Nevada, has cut the number of meth labs in the state in half. It is, however, increasing the amount of imported meth, as the other day’s big meth bust in Alabama shows.
The Nevada Assembly rejected a bill that would require stores which sell medicinal products used in meth production to log and report sales of these products. The anti-meth groups are outraged. Honestly, I think this is the right approach, but the wrong jurisdiction. This needs to be federal, reason being, if it goes state by state, as resourceful as meth manufacturers are, they’ll just cross state lines to pick up their supplies. Story at RGJ.com.
