The Indy Star has an article on HB 1223 entitled Anti-meth measure advances in House. The bill:
Requires the real estate disclosure form to disclose whether a property was used to manufacture methamphetamine or if the offense of dumping controlled substance waste was committed on the property. Adds certain chemical reagents to the list of chemical reagents and precursors used in the manufacture of methamphetamine. Makes ephedrine and pseudoephedrine schedule V controlled substances.
My understanding is that, as a schedule V controlled substance, products with ephedrine and pseudoephedrine would have to be sold from behind the counter of a pharmacy. This includes a lot of cold medicines. Like I’ve said before, I don’t know if this is the answer, but meth is a huge problem. In the course of my work as a county attorney defending the Sheriff’s Department against various prisoner claims and as a collections attorney trying to get money out of the less affluent members of the community, I get to peek into the county’s drug problems a bit. And, it seems like meth is just a problem of a much greater scope and destructiveness than the other drugs.
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