Meth Law

Add two more states to the rolls of states trying to curb meth use by making legitimate users of cold medicine sign a log book before buying. Arizona and New Hampshire both have bills in their state legislature that will follow the failed lead of the Oklahoma law that has been copied in many states. As I've written before these laws do nothing to curb meth use, in fact they exacerbate the problem.

Steve Suo, a reporter for The Oregonian newspaper, found that across America the indicators of meth use and addiction rise or fall based on the purity of the drug, regardless of state laws. Other research has found that laws such as the one the House passed yesterday can increase meth addiction. When the supply from local meth labs dries up, gangs move in to replace it. They sell a purer form of meth that is more addictive.

These state laws are only causing the meth problem to be worse and negatively impact innocent people by making cold medicine harder to get and harder to find.