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New meth laws are welcome step in right direction

Anything reasonable that makes it harder to cook up batches of methamphetamine makes a lot of sense to us.

That’s why we support a trio of bills signed into law by Gov. Rick Snyder intended to clamp down on access to one of the illegal drug’s primary ingredients.

In stories reported by The Associated Press Monday, one law prohibits buying or possessing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine – ingredients in cold medicine – knowing it will be used to cook meth. A second law makes it a crime to ask another person to buy ephedrine or pseudoephedrine. A third classifies that soliciting someone to buy meth components is a felony carrying a penalty of up to 10 years in prison.

The laws are meant to crack down on “smurfs,” people who buy cold medicine for drug ringleaders to use in meth production, AP stated.

Meth is cooked up in crude homemade laboratories that often blow up in the participants’ faces.

The drug has destroyed lives, many right here in Superiorland. These laws, which go into effect in January, are a step in the right direction.

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