Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Feinstein-Talent Anti-Meth Bill
The bill:
- Moves cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine [all cold medicines have it] behind the counter - amends the Controlled Substances Act to appropriately limit the sale of medicines containing pseudoephedrine by placing them behind the counter and sets a limit on how much of such medicines one person can buy in a month - 7.5 grams.
- Requires signature and identification for purchases - The Attorney General will develop regulations to ensure uniformity.
- Senator Coburn's (R-OK) amendment allows states (or political subdivisions) to go above what the combat meth act will require, such as making cold products containing pseudoephedrine prescription only.
- Senator Hatch's (R-UT) amendment requires that cold medicines in which pseudoephedrine is the only active ingredient be moved behind the counter within 90 days of the bill's enactment and medicine with pseudoephedrine and other active ingredients must be moved behind the counter by January 1, 2007
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Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Feinstein-Talent Anti-Meth Bill
The bill:
- Moves cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine [all cold medicines have it] behind the counter - amends the Controlled Substances Act to appropriately limit the sale of medicines containing pseudoephedrine by placing them behind the counter and sets a limit on how much of such medicines one person can buy in a month - 7.5 grams.
- Requires signature and identification for purchases - The Attorney General will develop regulations to ensure uniformity.
- Senator Coburn's (R-OK) amendment allows states (or political subdivisions) to go above what the combat meth act will require, such as making cold products containing pseudoephedrine prescription only.
- Senator Hatch's (R-UT) amendment requires that cold medicines in which pseudoephedrine is the only active ingredient be moved behind the counter within 90 days of the bill's enactment and medicine with pseudoephedrine and other active ingredients must be moved behind the counter by January 1, 2007
Yay for more meth laws. But to be fair, meth is a big problem. I used to live in Fresno, California, the biggest meth exporter in the country.
And I think 7.5 grams works out to about 250 pills a month at a 30 miligram dosage.
But still, once long ago, the government decided that cannabis and hemp were dangerous drugs, and now sink patients can't get medicine.