How Freedom Control Works

Bob has a great story up this morning. Go read it. All read? Well it reminded me of a story I read last night but had forgotten about due to other blogging I felt more pressing. Here’s the story.

Electronic systems that track sales of the cold medicine used to make methamphetamine have failed to curb the drug trade and instead created a vast, highly lucrative market for profiteers to buy over-the-counter pills and sell them to meth producers at a huge markup.

An Associated Press review of federal data shows that the lure of such easy money has drawn thousands of new people into the methamphetamine underworld over the last few years.

So from Bob’s story and mine it seems that the Methamphetamine trade isn’t really slowing down much, despite pretty obnoxious controls. We all now have to show our driver’s license when buying decongestants, and sign a piece of paper legally swearing we’ll be good boys and girls. Unlike say pain killers or fever reducers or stool softeners, where you can buy from just any store during normal business hours, these drugs can only be purchased from the pharmacy counter. This is not only a pain, but can be a royal pain, as well as a pointless violation of privacy. My favorite story was cumming down with a THUMPING sinus headache on a Sunday Afternoon. Went to the local pharmacy…and found that the Pharmacists go home at 2pm on a Sunday. Tough Shit for Weer’d Beard, I just had to take lots of ibuprofen to mask the problem rather than treating it.

To what end? There is still lots of Meth on the streets, and now there is a criminal class just supplying the labs with the restricted products we need.

This is no different with the total ban on drugs like Marijuana or Cocaine, or Heroin, nor for restrictions on firearms in places like Chicago, DC, NYC, or LA.

And in the end this decongestant registry was made to curb people cooking Meth…WHICH IS ALREADY A CRIME!

Is there any surprise it didn’t work?

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