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(Hornlake, MS 2/3/10) If Mississippi House Bill 512 is signed into law, it will mean no more buying cold pills with Pseudoephedrine with out a prescription.
The hope is to stop criminals from cooking Meth in Mississippi.
"If you can't buy it at the store they won't be able to use it and they won't be able to cook nothing up," said resident Trey Ford.
Meth labs are popping up daily, like at the Holiday Inn in Horn Lake Tuesday night. Law enforcement is welcoming the law.
"Its does get aggravating all the paper work we have to do and all the stuff that we have to do. To put these people in jail and see the laws not get tougher and then they get cut loose and they are right back out cooking Meth again," said Lt. Scott Evans of Horn Lake Police.
Pharmacist Eddie O'Brannon says the new law will penalize the good guys that are just trying to fight off a cold.
"Its going to make them have to pay anywhere from $30 to $35 to $40 to $50 just to get the prescription," said O'Bannon.
Once the law is signed pseudo ephedrine will change its narcotic ranking, which is its level of addict ability. It will go from a schedule 5 drug to a schedule 3 which is the same category as Hydrocodone and Codeine.
Oregon is the only other state with the law. Their Meth labs dropped 96 percent the year after it was passed. Law enforcement in the mid south aren't sure it will not stop crooks from crossing the state line to get the over the counter drugs. But they hope it helps.
"There's a lot of Meth heads out there, we going to do something to help them out," added Ford.
If signed the law would go into effect on July 1st. Tennessee and Arkansas only have limits on how much can be purchased at one time and where the products are placed stores.
- MS Governor Haley Barbour expected to sign bill creating one of toughest anti-meth laws in the country
- It would require a prescription to get any medicine containing Pseudoephedrine
- Pseudoephedrine is a key ingredient in meth-making
(Hornlake, MS 2/3/10) If Mississippi House Bill 512 is signed into law, it will mean no more buying cold pills with Pseudoephedrine with out a prescription.
The hope is to stop criminals from cooking Meth in Mississippi.
"If you can't buy it at the store they won't be able to use it and they won't be able to cook nothing up," said resident Trey Ford.
Meth labs are popping up daily, like at the Holiday Inn in Horn Lake Tuesday night. Law enforcement is welcoming the law.
"Its does get aggravating all the paper work we have to do and all the stuff that we have to do. To put these people in jail and see the laws not get tougher and then they get cut loose and they are right back out cooking Meth again," said Lt. Scott Evans of Horn Lake Police.
Pharmacist Eddie O'Brannon says the new law will penalize the good guys that are just trying to fight off a cold.
"Its going to make them have to pay anywhere from $30 to $35 to $40 to $50 just to get the prescription," said O'Bannon.
Once the law is signed pseudo ephedrine will change its narcotic ranking, which is its level of addict ability. It will go from a schedule 5 drug to a schedule 3 which is the same category as Hydrocodone and Codeine.
Oregon is the only other state with the law. Their Meth labs dropped 96 percent the year after it was passed. Law enforcement in the mid south aren't sure it will not stop crooks from crossing the state line to get the over the counter drugs. But they hope it helps.
"There's a lot of Meth heads out there, we going to do something to help them out," added Ford.
If signed the law would go into effect on July 1st. Tennessee and Arkansas only have limits on how much can be purchased at one time and where the products are placed stores.
