Comments on: A pox on all meth labs

By: Brian Schuch

Brian Schuch — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 17:25:32 +0000

Yes, curbing production was the primary intent of the lawmakers, but once again, I must point out, if meth were legal (and thus controlled), meth labs would be almost non-existant (I’m not naive to think that they’d be completely gone, but it wouldn’t be like you could run down to your Target and buy a do-it-yourself meth kit). I am aware of the dangers of meth production and meth usage, and it is not pretty. However, I would be much happier if the heads went down to some local meth center and got their fix than me coming home and getting blown up because the moron couldn’t toss a salad properly.

By: Milind Kulkarni

Milind Kulkarni — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 14:32:27 +0000

Brian, I agree to some extent. I do think that a lot of drug laws are perhaps misguided and don’t do anything to actually stop drug use. However, I can see this law in another light. I don’t think it’s meant to stop meth use (or rather, I don’t think it will, even if the lawmakers think that it may), but instead is meant to curtail meth production (again, maybe not the original intent of the lawmakers, but this is the only effect that I think it may have). This is actually a vaguely admirable goal, because illicit meth labs are highly dangerous, not only to the people who run them, but to anyone around them. A lot of the chemicals used are highly toxic, volatile and even explosive. So if placing restrictions on pseudoephedrine makes it harder for my neighbor to start up a meth lab next to my new apartment, in my opinion, that’s a good thing.

By: Brian Schuch

Brian Schuch — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:30:37 +0000

I looked to see if you were online so I could say these things to you there, but you weren’t. So, here’s my list of things
1. Do you actually repost this in live journal or is there some option to do that for you?
2. What this? Unless I post a comment in lj I don’t get a response?
3. What do my comments sound so demanding?
4. Is that why I don’t get responses?
5. Personally I would damn the government for overreacting to this so called “meth menace” and passing ineffective laws that effect way to many people just to attack a symptom of a minor problem instead of attacking the root cause, ie the drackonian laws of the us in regards to drugs. Legal things are infinitely easier to control than illicit ones. I’m not saying Japan’s laws are better, quite the reverse actually as there’s one classification; go-to-jail-for-a-really-fucking-long-time-and-have-your-life-completely-ruined.

By: Tom Callaway

Tom Callaway — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:29:33 +0000

Wait, you can do other things with pseudoephedrine besides make meth? This is news to me!