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Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Indiana Law - More on LCJ Meth series
The third part of the Louisville Courier-Journal series on Indiana and Kentucky's problems in dealing with the meth crisis appears here today. (Scroll down 3 entries for links to the earlier stories.) Headlined "Tighter ingredient controls can curb meth production: Drug courts called vital in treating addiction," today's story reports:
Kentucky and Indiana lawmakers expect to consider legislation next year that would tighten the sale of ingredients used to make meth and increase treatment for addicts.Central to both states' plans are bills designed to severely limit the sale of cold and allergy drugs that contain pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient for making methamphetamine.
The legislation in both states will be based at least in part on an Oklahoma law that directs retailers to keep cold and allergy drugs that contain pseudoephedrine behind counters, requires customers to sign a log and limits how much can be bought in a month, lawmakers said.
Oklahoma pharmacies will not sell a person more than nine grams of pseudoephedrine in a product within a 30-day period. * * *
Indiana appears to be ahead of Kentucky, having formed a task force that recently issued an array of recommendations for legislation to be introduced next month in the General Assembly.
Indiana state Rep. Trent Van Haaften, D-Mount Vernon, the legislative member of the task force, said success in his state could spur surrounding states to react.
"If Illinois sees that it works in Indiana, that could provide an example for both Illinois and Kentucky, and Ohio and Michigan for that matter," he said.
Oklahoma believes its law immediately cut the number of meth labs that needed to be dismantled, said Robert Lee, deputy inspector of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 28, 2004 10:58 AM
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