Pot times July 15, 2005
Police Brace For Meth Market Changes
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1115/a06.htmlNewshawk: Herb
Webpage: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/DF8DE37AFF4B7DCA
Pubdate: Wed, 13 Jul 2005
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
Copyright: 2005 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Contact: letters@post-dispatch.com
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/418
Author: Matthew Hathaway
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/meth.htm (Methamphetamine)
POLICE BRACE FOR METH MARKET CHANGES
Mexican drug cartels might move quickly to fill the demand for methamphetamine
as Missouri on Friday joins a growing list of states that are restricting the
sale of cold pills that are used to make the powerful drug. And some
police fear that Missouri's meth cooks, desperate to stay in business, might
turn to the Metro East area.
Missouri's new law prohibits most Missouri retailers from selling hundreds of
over-the-counter medications containing pseudoephedrine, the essential
ingredient in most recipes for meth.
While supporters of the law say it won't stop most addicts from getting their
fix, they're hoping it will make a dent in the thousands of makeshift meth labs
that have sprung up across Missouri's rural landscape. In recent years,
the state has led the nation in the number of meth lab seizures. The labs
can blow up, and breathing the toxic chemicals used to make meth can shave years
off the lives of drug cooks, their families and even the police who try to shut
the labs down.
