Now that North Carolina has made Sudafed a controlled substance, that meth thing is all better, right? Not so much. The New York Times provides a glimpse of what we have to look forward to:
“The Mexican drug cartels were right there to feed that demand,” said Tom Cunningham, the drug task force coordinator for the district attorneys council for Oklahoma, the first state to put pseudoephedrine behind pharmacy counters, in 2004. “They have always supplied marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. When we took away the local meth lab, they simply added methamphetamine to the truck.”
Gee! Didn’t see that one coming. Is there a pill state AGs take so they all think like five-year-olds? Or is it part of job security through bad policy plan?
Anyway, we’re tough on Sudafed. Next up: Cough drops.
