Meth kits given to area retailers - 82% drop in meth labs in Iowa

[The Straight Story]

Meth kits given to area retailers
Danica Baker
Herald Staff Writer

CLINTON — Another step is being taken to reduce methamphetamine manufacturing in Clinton County.

Meth Reduction Coordinator Kristin Huisenga and local law enforcement officials are in the process of distributing Meth Watch kits to area retailers. More than 4,000 kits were disseminated across Iowa in 2005. All 99 county sheriffs have received a kit.

“We want 100 percent saturation,” said Huisenga, “We will be giving them out until everyone has one that wants one.”

According to its Web site, the Iowa Meth Watch Program is designed to help curtail the theft and suspicious sales of pseudoephedrine products, as well as other common household products used in the illicit manufacturing of methamphetamine.

....Iowa’s pseudoephedrine law went into effect May 21. According to the Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy, Iowa saw an 82 percent reduction in meth labs in the first six months after the law went into effect.

http://www.clintonherald.com/local/local_story_005120358.html

[endarkenment]

1. Ah finally, victory in the War On Some Drugs!

The meth labs are in their last throes.

[LincolnMcGrath]

2. My hometown rag!

To be sure, Iowa has outsourced some of it's meth production.

Iowa's ridiculous reactionary laws were passed to model Oklahoma's 'supposed successes.'

Problem is that meth use is the same in Iowa and Oklahoma, only the manufacture has been outsourced to mexico.

[DBoon]

3. if it works, fine

anything to reduce the number of paranoid, hyperagressive freepers is great by me

[MadHound]

4. Reduction of meth labs will be temporary, and the number of users

Remains strong. Right now, though meth labs have been reduced throughout the Midwest, meth usage and addiction remains virtually the same, because now the meth is being shipped from Mexico. This increases the price for the shit, thus increasing the secondary crime wave that accompanies it(burglary, robberies and other assorted property crimes committed in order to pay those higher prices).

The thing is that this reduction in labs will probably only be temporary, for even as we post here, some backwoods meth chemist is trying out everything under the sun to replace the use of these cold medicines, and sooner or later they will find what they're looking for. The new meth recipie will be spread by word of mouth, and the number of meth labs will increase to the previous number, if not surpass it.

Instead, why don't we just legalize the damn stuff, regulate it like we do alcohol, and stop this foolish War on Drugs. Usage rates would go down, crime would decrease, and the toxic waste sites that are meth labs will go away.

[Notary Sojac]

7. Drug prohibition is much too profitable to shut down. eom

[MadHound]

10. Yeah, you're right, too profitable to the few,

And hell on earth for the rest of us. What was that saying by Malcolm X, "Police, politicians and criminals all walk hand in hand in hand", something like that. That is nowhere more true nor obvious than in this War on Drugs. Sad to say, most of the people in this country don't recognize that truth even though it is plain before them.

[catmandu57]

9. You make too much sense my friend

There is too much money invested in law enforcement to just shut it down. I would, I'd declare victory and move on. If this poison was made in labs it would be much safer and cleaner, you wouldn't have to worry about the house next door exploding and damaging yours, or killing someone.
If people want to use this shit, fine use it, but, let's remove law enforcement from the equation.

[Debi]

5. This has done nothing to stop the use of meth and minimize it's affect

on users and their families.

[tonka023]

6. what would work for me

for stopping any desire to try meth would be to show what meth users look
like. They lose their teeth. I think that picture might be more effective in
discouraging kids.

but then again, I would never try it anyways.

[Debi]

8. Yep. Some pics I've seen are just awful. n/t

[High Plains]

11. The Mexican meth cartel thanks Iowa authorities

for helping it increase its market share.

Seriously, I suppose a reduction in home meth labs is a good thing. There's nothing like a guy who hasn't slept for three days playing with dangerous chemicals to make the neighborhood exciting.

Still, we need to legalize this and all other drugs and deal with the problems as a public health issue. Get the cops out of it. And free the Sudafed for all of us cold sufferers.

[Ksec]

12. They will now import their meth.

Mexico will be proud to help out the Iowa speed freaks.