Comments on: Oregon’s Bumblin’, Stumblin’ Government Eyes Anti-Meth Laws

By: Danimal

Danimal — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:40:45 +0000

You’d argue that, yes. But bathtub meth is the working man’s speed and crack the working man’s coke.* While the market for “getting high” may be price inelastic, the market for these drugs in particular likely isn’t. Make them too expensive and most users may just go back to good ol’ booze and reefer.

Bumblin’ and stumblin’ note: while all pseudoephedrine products are now locked behind the counter, it is still perfectly easy to buy Primatene tablets which contain a hefty dose of real ephedrine. A raw, true amphetamine which surely isn’t all that difficult to make into crystal meth.

The herbal form of ephedrine, ephedra, was of course banned by the FDA a year or two ago. But it remains available as a good clean tab of speed for asthma sufferers like me.

I love it.

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*By “working man” in this situation I mean “man working until he stops showing up, steals money from the business, or attacks his boss with a tire iron.”

By: Timothy

Timothy — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:46:57 +0000

And, hence, burning Coos County could work.

Although I’d argue that the market for drugs is extremely, extremely price inelastic.

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:38:22 +0000

I actually think driving up the cost of meth might lower the number of addicts, as it’s only popular because it’s so cheap.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 23:22:57 +0000

Stop worring about meth, deregulate the welfare state, burn Coos County. I think this is likely the solution.

By: Jean-Claude Ontario

Jean-Claude Ontario — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:05:28 +0000

Here is my 3 point plan:

-End social welfare to any suspected drug user
-Create a bounty for meth users and reporting meth labs
-advertize more that it is legal in oregon to use deady physical force to protect property.

That will save oregon tax payers millions and solve the meth problem. Yay!