Do-Gooder Legislation

Have you recently tried to purchase Sudafed or Claritin D? Well, then you know the procedure. You must go humiliate yourself back at the pharmacy counter: show your picture I.D., give your address, and prepare to have all your purchases of psuedophedrine documented for at least two years!

Who sponsored this do-gooder legislation that so eggregiously violates the privacy of cold and allergy sufferers? Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joseph Biden, to name just a few presidential contenders. Why? Ostensibly to stem the flow of methamphetamine production. Have they succeeded?

Well, apparently the U.S. production has been hampered, but guess what? The Mexican drug cartels now control 80 percent of the U.S. market! They produce it consistently and dependably for their U.S. distributors, and bring it across the porous border along with the humans they smuggle in to the U.S. Meth use is up, especially "ice," which can be smoked. Thanks Barack! Thanks Hillary! Thanks Joe! We will remember you as we sneeze our way to the polls in 08!
Via Bridget Johnson's article in the Los Angeles Daily News updated February 3, 2007 in the Salt Lake Tribune entitled

Pseudophedrine Restrictions A Boon To Mexican Cartels

thanks also to Instapundit and Reason Magazine. Sorry, Blogger is not allowing me to link tonight.