Meth labs soar in Missouri

It's nice to know the Patriot Act-fueled war on Sudafed is working.

Oops, it isn't working.

Missouri has its own version of unconstitutional laws to stop law-abiding people from buying cold or allergy medicine for its specified purpose. Of course, legislators' excuse for these laws is that the laws will stop meth abuse once and for all.

But whoever first came up with these laws did not have good intentions. At all.

Most lawmakers did indeed vote for these laws, after lots of arm-twisting and being fed loads of drug warrior propaganda. But whoever conceived these laws did so solely out of a desire to hurt innocents. That is not mere speculation. That is a fact.

The law would be ineffective at fighting meth, and they knew it.

Everyone in Missouri ought to know it now.

Because of these new laws being so ineffective, meth labs are on the rise in the Show Me State.

After Missouri took harsher measures than most other states in criminalizing allergy sufferers who had no meth involvement, Missouri leads the nation in meth incidents. This year, Missouri has had over 3 times as many incidents as its closest competitor, Mississippi.

Everything about the failed War on Drugs is constitutionally questionable at minimum - if not clearly unconstitutional. America has to be returned to its constitutional foundations. We are expected by our very nature to have the courage to defend and keep the rights listed in our Constitution.

Our patience has worn very, very thin.

(Source: http://www.fox4kc.com/news/sns-ap-mo--missourimeth,0,4344983.story)