Oklahoma Fights Meth Labs by Locking up Cold Meds

What is the best way to fight Methamphetamine producers and drug pushers? Oklahoma claims that the right way is by locking up cold medicines.

Two months after the state ordered common nasal decongestants like Sudafed and Claritin-D placed behind pharmacy counters, law officers were finding half as many labs. Ten months later, meth lab seizures are down more than 80 percent...State officials believe many clandestine cooks have closed their kitchens for good now that pseudoephedrine, the key ingredient in meth, cannot be sold over the counter.

Normally, this kind of news would not catch my attention. But with the dearth of flu vaccines and the weird weather (60 to 20 to 60 to 20) in New England, people are dropping like flies with colds, flus, and random viral infections. If this kind of law were to be implemented here, this winter, it would make it much harder to function through the bugs.