Surprise, surprise: Meth production soars because of new laws

Just to be clear, the laws limiting Sudafed purchases aren't working in the fight against meth. We knew they weren't working, and we knew when they first passed that they wouldn't work.

Apologists for these laws have long spewed their propaganda about how failsafe their laws are, but now it's starting to come apart for them. So maybe now we can finally have a two-sided debate about these draconian laws.

Because of the new laws, the state of Indiana has just posted its second-highest number of meth labs ever - a 31% increase from the year before.

In just the first 2 months of the year, police in Tulsa have uncovered 28 meth labs - compared with 41 for all of last year. So Tulsa is on track to see a fourfold increase in meth labs, after passage of the new laws.

Officials say meth makers aren't affected by the new laws, because they evade limits on psuedophedrine-containing products by getting small quantities from various retailers, instead of just one store. Like we couldn't see from the get-go that this would happen?

So what's the answer? Well, considering the drug warriors live in a Bizarro World, their answer is...yet more laws to inconvenience innocent people. Of course.

The vicious cycle of tyranny creep continues: A problem was identified, ineffective laws were passed to "fight" it, the problem got worse, so more laws are planned.

But the idiots never learn, do they? If they did, I wouldn't be writing about this now. I for one am tired of having to expose a law that was doomed to fail from the start.

Next time you have allergies, you should protest these laws by buying small quantities of pseudoephedrine products at different stores, just so the authorities have some extra work to do going after someone who's completely innocent. They'll never know what hit them.

(Source: http://www.indystar.com/article/20090308/LOCAL/903080416;
http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=9968307)