(KY) Jim Waters - Twisted Logic Leads to Loony Meth Legislation, False Claims
KENTUCKY (1/15/12) – Some politicians prefer the sledgehammer-to-an-ant approach that requires law-abiding citizens to get a prescription from a doctor before being allowed to purchase medicine containing the decongestant pseudoephedrine.
In big-government’s twisted logic, imposing this requirement will prevent criminals from obtaining pseudoephedrine, an ingredient necessary for the manufacture of the dangerous drug methamphetamine.
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A decade ago, the state implemented the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting (KASPER) system in response to the Oxycontin epidemic of the time. We now have regular hearings in Frankfort lamenting doctor shopping and “pill mills.”
Gov. Steve Beshear lamented over Kentucky’s prescription-drug crisis before a congressional panel last year: “In Kentucky alone, 82 people die every month from drug overdoses, a number that has now surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of accidental deaths in our state.”
Yet, and here’s that twisted logic again, Rep. Linda Belcher, D-Shepherdsville, and Sen. Tom Jensen, R-London, heavily support big-government solutions that would worsen what is already one of the nation’s most poisonous prescription-drug problems by … demanding prescriptions for yet another drug.
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