E-enforcement becomes reality

[flashl]

Source: Daily Citizen

A real-time electronic logbook system to track sales of pseudoephedrine, the primary ingredient for making methamphetamine, has been implemented across the state in an effort to disrupt the drug's supply chain, according to an announcement made by Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel in Searcy Wednesday.

“We now have the model system soon to be used nationwide,” McDaniel said. “This was the right thing to do. It was money well spent.”

The LeadsOnLabs computer-based record-keeping system replaces paper logs kept by pharmacies, and can only be accessed by law enforcement personnel, protecting consumer privacy. Similar systems are being used in Oklahoma and Tennessee, with Oklahoma seeing an 85-percent drop in meth labs after implementation. The Arkansas system was begun after a pilot program in North Little Rock, which officials with the Arkansas Crime Information System said was successful.

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McDaniel said the system's implementation was “the result of good legislative work over the past couple sessions of the General Assembly.”

The Daily Citizen

Read more: http://www.thedailycitizen.com/articles/2008/06/05/news/local_news/news01.txt

[Dogtown]

1. Crap

Total crap.

Merchants will just outsource to labs outside the US or smuggle in the precursors. Dribbles of pseudophedrine from pharmacies is the source for small, local labs.

This just eliminates the competitors to the big labs.


Oh.....

:blush:

[Lance_Boyle]

2. fucking morons

You've wasted untold millions (billions?) on a project that will tell you nothing more than who in your state has the sniffles, and how often. Meanwhile, Mexican-produced meth will flow into the state to keep pace with demand, and the root of the problem (demand) will not be addressed. Brilliant! :eyes:

[Hydra]

3. haha

As if they care about the meth.

No, this meshes nicely with all the other info about law enforcement being able to access any kind of records without a warrant.

It's funny about them turning lemons into lemonaid, though. They look like they are protecting the public better when really they are turning into the ultimate voyeurs.

[Bake]

4. So here in Mississippi

Allergy/sinus capital of the world, everybody in my family takes Advil Cold & Sinus. I have to go to three different drug stores because you can only buy so much in one month ...

Really sucks.

Bake

[dipsydoodle]

5. So does that include cough medicines ?

:shrug:

[aquart]

6. Stupidest legislation on the planet.

Legalize drugs. Remove the profit. Poof. All the idiocy goes away.

[Indenturedebtor]

7. Seriously. the Drug war created the Meth problem

Who the hell would have made drugs out of battery acid if they could have walked to the store and bought a little coke?

Last call for freedom, last call!

[aquart]

8. I would be perfectly happy to hand the profits to the pharmaceuticals

if it would get us legalization. They could offset their losses from all their drugs that give heart attacks and strokes, and we could get a generation out of jail. I don't think the prison lobby has nearly the strength of the pharmaceutical lobby.

[Indenturedebtor]

9. Not even close

Did you know that Obama wants to decriminalize drug use?

We gotta get this guy into office!

[AllHereTruth]

10. Missing the point.

You guys are missing the point of the article.

The LeadsOnLabs computer-based record-keeping system replaces paper logs kept by pharmacies, and can only be accessed by law enforcement personnel, protecting consumer privacy.

Its ok for the government to intrude on our personal lives if it involves drugs right?? right?

Whats next...