Article “Meth flourishes despite restrictions on cold pills” goes on to report “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.”
WATCHDOG: Prohibition doesn’t work. It didn’t for alcohol nor will it for marijuana and hard drugs. The War on Drugs is destabilizing Mexico and threatens public safety in the southern border states, in addition to generating violence to the inner city and resulting in great wealth going to the worst elements of society.
The better approach is education, taxation, regulation and control. This is the approach that we have taken towards alcohol and nicotine, and it has been relatively successful.
