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We're going to be a pretty wacky state if we ban Sudafed and allow Mary Jane to be a traffic ticket.
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Jan. 10, 2005, 11:51AM
Lawmaker wants to ban drugs like Sudafed
Associated Press
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AUSTIN - A state senator who wants to eliminate from the market drugs that contain mainly pseudoephedrine has introduced a series of four bills for returning lawmakers.
Under the legislation by Sen. Craig Estes, no one would be able to buy drugs like Sudafed in Texas. But he said consumers could still buy other congestion remedies containing the decongestant, as long as it is mixed into capsules and cough syrups.
"We hope the general public will realize that a little inconvenience will go a long way," Estes, R-Wichita Falls, told the Scripps Howard Austin bureau in Monday's editions of the Abilene Reporter-News.
In Oklahoma, passage of state legislation last spring that banned store sales of popular medications like Sudafed and Claritin-D that contain pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient in methamphetamine, was credited with reducing the number of methamphetamine labs during the first six months of 2004.
Police and prosecutors have been "inundated by meth abusers and cookers" who have crossed into Texas after Oklahoma outlawed over-the-counter sales of pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient in methamphetamine production, Estes said.
Restricting sales of common cold remedies that contain the illegal drug's key ingredient could aid in the fight against drugs, said Capt. Doug Kunkle of the Texas Department of Public Safety in Austin.
"It will really reduce the amount of meth they will cook here," Kunkle said. "Anything that can bring us relief ... will be helpful."
DPS officials and other law officers, in a 12-month period that ended in May 2004, busted 934 labs. That number represents a 167 percent increase over a 12-month period ending in December 2002.
"This is drug that is terribly addictive and leads to death and destruction of family and property," Estes said. "It's an overwhelming problem."
The 79th Legislature opens Tuesday.
We're going to be a pretty wacky state if we ban Sudafed and allow Mary Jane to be a traffic ticket.
In Arizona, Sudafed and Enfamil baby formula are both sold behind the counter. Apparently for the same reason.
Your state leg is also trying to make it illegal to get a drink at midnight on your 21st birthday and require a person to REGISTER (ala buying a GUN) to buy a freaking KEG OF BEER!
Why can't Leticia Van DePUKE work on some way to fix the schools in her district? I ing hate that woman.
ASF, I didn't know about the registration to buy a keg. Can you link me to something about it.Your state leg is also trying to make it illegal to get a drink at midnight on your 21st birthday and require a person to REGISTER (ala buying a GUN) to buy a freaking KEG OF BEER!
I already have a reporter working on the alcohol at 7AM on birthday story and the marijuana possession.
It's part of the same bill dude so unless your reporter is stupid, they'll find it.
H.B. 36?
Nothing there, buddy.
It's H.B. 193.
This is one step in combatting the meth problem. Meth addiction is a HUGE problem in our state. I think it's a good idea.
funny, i've been thinking of taking it as a supplement and as a subs ute for ephedra products.....nasal decongestant will help you breath better and the medicine does give you an energy boost like the other ephedra based supplements did......maybe it's time to stock up.
my bad JB
'Cause buying loads of Sudafed won't tipoff the cops, right, Zak?
On a side note - I can't ing type today. I haven't hit the backspace button so much in a long while.
Don't worry. The more we have, the easier it's going to be to fill those 12 pages I have in the first issue next Tuesday.
I thinkyou should do a 10 page expose on Hook Dem
The crap about not getting booze before 7 is ing re ed. Because some dumb broad's dip Aggie son drank himself to death on his 21st birthday she has to things up for everybody.
Why do I have the feeling that's going to be the exact wording of the bulk of Texas State students in the story?
So can't people just buy the beer the day before and then drink themselves to death the next? A little planning people!!!
I think the point is not to sell beer to people before 7AM the day of their birthday.
*Smack*
It just means they have to wait until 7am to drink themselves to death instead of doing it at midnight.
Nothing like a seven hour waiting period to off yourself with the sauce.
How ty is it to have to buy beer for yourself on your birthday!!! No wonder you're drinking yourself to death!
Nothing like the good ole government to come up with re ed things like Sudafed and preventing buying till 7 am.
Only the government would have an idea as stupid as that.
Hes gonna drink whether it be at 12 or 7.
Plus, dont think there wont be friends that will buy booze for him???
This is plain stupid.
Plus, dont think there wont be friends that will buy booze for him???
In the incident they site in the proposal, which I assume this all originated...was that his friends did buy him waaaaaay too many celebratory drinks.
guys or people that age are gonna find a way around it.
Making up stupid laws to prevent such a worthless cause is such a beurocratic waste of time.
There actually is some sound research showing that such a ban does reduce alcohol-related vehicle deaths. Other states have implemented laws like this with pretty good success. I'd support it if I were still one of you silly Texans.
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