Comments on: Barbour signs ‘meth’ bill into law http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/02/11/barbour-signs-meth-bill-into-law/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=barbour-signs-meth-bill-into-law Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mark Bodenhausen http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/02/11/barbour-signs-meth-bill-into-law/#comment-12164 Mark Bodenhausen Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:04:38 +0000 http://msbusiness.com/?p=19051#comment-12164 I’m afraid you didn’t do your homework, Wally…meth is NOT an illegal drug! It is DEA Schedule II, which means it is a controlled substance that requires a prescription, like Oxycontin or Tylenol #3. It is manufactured by several pharmaceutical companies and available in drug stores under the trade name “Desoxyn” (use Google if you like) and is used to treat ADD, narcolepsy, depression, and help the severely obese lose weight.

I think it would be more proper to write “Gov. Haley Barbour has signed House Bill 512, aimed at restricting the purchase of a key ingredient used in the illegal manufacture of the drug methamphetamine.
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As it reads now, it gives the reader the impression that all forms of meth are illegal when they are not.

]]> By: Kyle Eubank http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/02/11/barbour-signs-meth-bill-into-law/#comment-11743 Kyle Eubank Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:38:29 +0000 http://msbusiness.com/?p=19051#comment-11743 Does anyone think this crap through? Why should a cheap, effective and safe medication be made prescription? Now to get simple cold relief, people will have to take off of work and/or take their kids out of school to make a visit to the doctors office. Here is a perfect example of why our medical costs keep spiraling upward. I don’t really care who does meth, if they kill themselves, why should I care?

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