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2 women charged with meth ‘smurfing’
Published February 9, 2010, 12:17 pm, The Greenwood Commonwealth
State and Greenwood officers have arrested two Grenada women suspected of “smurfing” pseudoephedrine, according to the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics.
5 face charges in meth roundup
Published February 8, 2010, 11:30 pm, The Clarion-Ledger
three from south Mississippi and two in Grenada - are the latest arrested in a statewide crackdown on methampetamine labs.
Shake And Bake Meth ... It's Not For Dinner
Published February 7, 2010, 8:01 pm, WFMY News 2 Greensboro
We've all gotten used to being asked for our license to buy pseudoephedrine. What if the pharmacist asked to see your driver's license to buy 2-litre bottles of soda?
Fight against meth shows results
Published February 7, 2010, 3:27 am, The Jackson Sun
Jackson pharmacies entered 300 pages of suspicious pseudoephedrine purchases into the Tennessee Methamphetamine Task Force pharmacy database in November. In January, those numbers dropped to 99 pages.
State lawmakers want to track cold medicine
Published February 4, 2010, 8:41 pm, NorthWest Cable News
OLYMPIA, Wash. - A bill by Rep. Tom Campbell, R-Roy, would set up an electronic system that would monitor the purchase of cold medicines, which contain ingredients used to make meth. Current law keeps medicine with pseudo ephedrine behind the counter and pharmacies keep a written log of people who make purchases, but it doesn't prevent people from going store to store -- a method known as ...
State lawmakers want to track cold medicine
Published February 4, 2010, 7:04 pm, KING5 Seattle
Is a new bill an invasion of privacy or a better way to crack down on the meth problem in Washington State?
Plan proposed to further track cold medicines
Published February 4, 2010, 12:20 am, Tacoma News Tribune
A South Sound lawmaker wants to further regulate and track sales of over-the-counter cold medicines – this time through an electronic database.
Editorial: Stopping the meth 'smurfers'
Published February 3, 2010, 10:06 pm, Memphis Commercial Appeal
Mississippi is about to embark on a rare effort to get a handle on the manufacture of the illegal, ubiquitous drug methamphetamine. Gov. Haley Barbour has indicated he will sign a bill that will require a prescription to buy over-the-counter cold medications that contain pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in methamphetamine. Oregon is the only other state that has such a law. At first glance, the ...
The War on ‘Sudafed’ Grows
Published February 3, 2010, 10:42 am, Jackson Free Press
The Mississippi Senate passed a bill Tuesday requiring drugs containing pseudoephedrine be sold by prescription only. The bill is a sister bill to House Bill 512 , a constitutional amendment authored by Rep. Ed Blackmon, D-Canton, which also targets a common ingredient in over-the-counter cold and allergy medicine.
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