Cuz the guy has lost touch with reality.

Six years after citizens of North Carolina were told that the hassel of having to sign for pseudoephedrine and otherwise subject themselves to state surveillance for the crime of having the sniffles would curb the horrors of meth production, state Rep. Horn (R-Weddington) and the usual round-up of incompetent law enforcement agencies are here to say that only prescriptions for pseudoephedrine will arrest an uptick in meth production.

What lunacy.

Nothing will stop meth except an end to the Drug War. Meth exists because it is a cheap, powerful high — one that is not dependent on overseas smuggling to distribute. Outlawing the component parts of the meth merely creates new categories of profitble smuggling opportunities. Retail quantities of pseudoephedrine and ad hoc cookers which so vex country bumpkin sheriffs across the nation will be replaced industrial-sized operations beyond the reach and out-of-sight of our confused Drug Warriors.

In any event, I cannot wait to see the fiscal note associated with any actual legislative language which would require scripts for pseudoephedrine.