One of my proposals has been to follow the lead of Mississippi and make products containing ephedrine a scheduled drug in Alabama. Of course, because of the number of dealers and the profits to be made it would also have to require strict penalties for doctors and a mandatory doctor/druggist registry.
The Times Daily reported today the names of 175 people arrested for contributing to the manufacture of methamphetamine. Some of these are hard core drug users. But the majority are feeders, people who buy the maximum allowed then drop them off to a mule who then carries it to the manufacturing facility.
I highly recommend the book "The Dome" by horror master Stephen King . I noticed in reading the book that Steve was having trouble writing an allegory about the problem of drug abuse in America and making it scarier than the real thing.
In the book the people of a small town all die from the ravages of a drug manufacturing plant even though only a couple of people (maybe only one) actually use the "Meth" they are making. Of course it involves evil aliens, evil government, evil minsters, and just plain evil, but the meaning of the book, as with all King work, is clear. "All that is required is for good men and women to do nothing"
Now these people arrested in Franklin and Marion County may not think they have committed a crime. I can see why. If I understand how it works. A person can go to a retail outlet, buy five packets of cold medicine for $25, take it to the mule and double their money. Making $25 a day retailing cold medicine is easy money. And the mules have a pickup route. They will come to your house if you want. ( I would have to advise against it)
I can be sympathetic. I can understand that in hard times the good people of counties in district 6 have been known to bend the rules a little bit. Walk on the lawless side to put beans in the pot. But Methamphetamine is different. Methamphetamine is not "Shine". The people, the community, even civilization itself is in danger from the ravages of drug abuse.
I have lost friends, students, co-workers and even children to the specter of drug abuse. I am convinced that it is time to take draconian measures to stop drug problem. In fact, if you had to pick one reason that I have thrown myself into the public light it would be because of the hold drugs have on our State and our Nation.
As one of my friends noted. There are troops in the streets in Chicago and innocent people are dying along our border with Mexico. People are affected everywhere in between. From our borders North and South and our oceans East and West, the problem is drugs.
The solution involves making the behavior seriously illegal.
Draconian measures won't change the picture overnight.
But it is a start.
A very necessary start.
The Times Daily reported today the names of 175 people arrested for contributing to the manufacture of methamphetamine. Some of these are hard core drug users. But the majority are feeders, people who buy the maximum allowed then drop them off to a mule who then carries it to the manufacturing facility.
I highly recommend the book "The Dome" by horror master Stephen King . I noticed in reading the book that Steve was having trouble writing an allegory about the problem of drug abuse in America and making it scarier than the real thing.
In the book the people of a small town all die from the ravages of a drug manufacturing plant even though only a couple of people (maybe only one) actually use the "Meth" they are making. Of course it involves evil aliens, evil government, evil minsters, and just plain evil, but the meaning of the book, as with all King work, is clear. "All that is required is for good men and women to do nothing"
Now these people arrested in Franklin and Marion County may not think they have committed a crime. I can see why. If I understand how it works. A person can go to a retail outlet, buy five packets of cold medicine for $25, take it to the mule and double their money. Making $25 a day retailing cold medicine is easy money. And the mules have a pickup route. They will come to your house if you want. ( I would have to advise against it)
I can be sympathetic. I can understand that in hard times the good people of counties in district 6 have been known to bend the rules a little bit. Walk on the lawless side to put beans in the pot. But Methamphetamine is different. Methamphetamine is not "Shine". The people, the community, even civilization itself is in danger from the ravages of drug abuse.
I have lost friends, students, co-workers and even children to the specter of drug abuse. I am convinced that it is time to take draconian measures to stop drug problem. In fact, if you had to pick one reason that I have thrown myself into the public light it would be because of the hold drugs have on our State and our Nation.
As one of my friends noted. There are troops in the streets in Chicago and innocent people are dying along our border with Mexico. People are affected everywhere in between. From our borders North and South and our oceans East and West, the problem is drugs.
The solution involves making the behavior seriously illegal.
Draconian measures won't change the picture overnight.
But it is a start.
A very necessary start.
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