Radley Balko, at the Huffington Post, writing about a new study on the effects of Oregon requiring prescriptions for pseudophedrine tablets:

The national results have been similar to what has happened in Oregon: a steep drop in meth lab incidents and seizures, but no real decline in the drug’s availability. The laws largely put an end to homemade meth labs, but opened market space for the superlabs and international cartels. It also may have created new black markets and a new class of criminals. The Associated Press reported last year that the law has dramatically increased the black market value of cold medication. College students, homeless people and others interested in quick and easy money have become “pill brokers,” selling medication that retails for six or seven dollars per box to the meth cooks for $40 or $50.

The Consumer Healthcare Products Association funded the report by the Cascade Policy Institute but the results aren’t exactly shocking news. Anyone who wants meth can still get it, while people with allergies have to go out of their way to get medicine.

Here in Oklahoma, one bill to restrict the drug failed in a senate committee last week, but other versions are still alive and DAs, including Tulsa County’s Tim Harris, continue to lobby for the measure.

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They’re going to make them filthy rich.