Correction Connection: effects of Sudafed crackdown

When the media fails to question what are obvious falsehoods, it's hard for me to say it isn't complicit in spreading them.

An effort by the far-right drug warriors to make Kentucky the second U.S. state - after Oregon - to require a prescription just to buy Sudafed is under way. This would violate federal law, of course, because the federal government defines this drug as over-the-counter.

(Although Oregon ranked high on the economic freedom index, that didn't take its draconian drug laws into account.)

Predictably, the drug warriors are spreading made-up propaganda in an attempt to justify this crackdown (which would hurt only innocent people). Some nobody who is leading the effort said meth labs plummeted in Oregon after that state began requiring a prescription for over-the-counter allergy drugs.

But that is categorically false.

Meth labs increased after the new law. I don't know where the Kentucky drug warriors are getting their data from, but whoever they got it from told an outright lie.

Ironically, the Kentucky wingnuts admit that other draconian measures have failed - just as we predicted. So they're using this failure as an excuse for more stringent measures.

It's a vicious cycle: When these measures fail, what will they try next?

When I see lies by drug warriors, I will call them out.