Sunday, July 22, 2007

First They Came for the Sudafed

I mentioned the hysteria capitalized on by the federal government regarding crystal meth just the other day in a post titled Mething With You, wherein I noted that the state will be tracking how much, and how often, individuals purchase Sudafed, just in case, you know, you’re taking the Sudafed home and cooking it up on your stove in order to make crystal meth.

Now the feds are coming after the iodine.

This rulemaking changes the regulation of the listed chemical iodine under the chemical regulatory provisions of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) believes that this action is necessary to remove deficiencies in the existing regulatory controls, which have been exploited by drug traffickers who divert iodine (in the form of iodine crystals and iodine tincture) for the illicit production of methamphetamine in clandestine drug laboratories. This rulemaking moves iodine from List II to List I; reduces the iodine threshold from 0.4 kilograms to zero kilograms; adds import and export regulatory controls; and controls chemical mixtures containing greater than 2.2 percent iodine.

FR Doc E7-12736 [Federal Register: July 2, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 126)] [Rules and Regulations] [Page 35920-35931] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr02jy07-6]

What’s next?

Via triticale - the wheat/rye guy, who also notes,

The really scary aspect of the crackdown on iodine is that it is legislation without representation. The public had no input; our soi-desant representatives had no input beyond having created the agency and authorized the war in which this reduction of freedom is an action.

Posted by John Venlet on 07/22 at 05:26 AM
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