About doctors drumming up business?

There is an exception for these drugs that can't be used to make meth. Consumers,would still have access without a prescription, just in a different form? Have you read either of the bills? Big Pharma and right wing radio will probably once again defeat these bills though.

But the Daily Mail has since removed it so that the link leads nowhere. Here's a Gazette article that's just as good or better:

That article seemed in support of the bill and it linked to a 2012 article.

Here is a link to it:

http://www.wvha.org/Media/News-Center/NewsScan/2014/1-21-Legislation-touted-as-means-to-combat-meth-la.aspx

You are in favor of the law?

That was the article I initially linked.

You and big Pharma will be happy with the outcome.

You will still be able to get the product just in a different form. What's the problem?

Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

I think it's a good idea to have access only to the products that are more difficult to convert to meth. If they are just as effective, there is no good reason to have the legacy medicine around at all, by prescription or otherwise. If they are not as effective, then that needs to be part of the debate.

As I said from the outset, we don't need to "...put pseudoephedrine behind the counter" as Detective Clark Green claimed, because it is already behind the counter where it is controlled today by pharmacists as I described. Supporters of the bill in question "...want consumers to know the law would not cause inconvenience." Do you honestly believe that going to a doctor to get a prescription for an OTC remedy is not an inconvenience? This defies logic.

If we need to do more, then let's tighten controls already in place or totally ban versions of these remedies that are not designed to thwart meth production. Regardless, there is no good reason to get doctors involved.

If I can't take what? I don't even understand what you are talking about? If you don't have to go to the doctor to get a prescription what do you care? They would never pass a bill doing away with
pseudoephedrine.

BTW, still feeling sorry for Gary Southern?

On the House floor now. Tune in!