http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/18/marijuana-americas-biggest-cash-crop/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:04:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/18/marijuana-americas-biggest-cash-crop/#comment-4785 The Liberty Papers»Blog Archive » We Told You So Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:40:42 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/18/marijuana-americas-biggest-cash-crop/#comment-4785 [...] In most states you must show ID to purchase pseudo-ephedrine because it is used to make meth. By Federal law you can only purchase a specific, very small, amount of pseudo-ephedrine per week. This leads to extreme silliness. And we told you it wouldn’t help, as Radley Balko discusses in his Fox column this week. Critics like me complained that the laws wouldn’t solve the meth problem, they would only invite new suppliers into thse communities – all while inconveniencing consumers. These measures might dry up homemade labs – and admittedly, they did – but they would create a market for purer, more potent meth from Mexico, along with the attendant crime that comes with an international, black market drug trade. [...] [...] In most states you must show ID to purchase pseudo-ephedrine because it is used to make meth. By Federal law you can only purchase a specific, very small, amount of pseudo-ephedrine per week. This leads to extreme silliness. And we told you it wouldn’t help, as Radley Balko discusses in his Fox column this week. Critics like me complained that the laws wouldn’t solve the meth problem, they would only invite new suppliers into thse communities – all while inconveniencing consumers. These measures might dry up homemade labs – and admittedly, they did – but they would create a market for purer, more potent meth from Mexico, along with the attendant crime that comes with an international, black market drug trade. [...]

]]> http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/18/marijuana-americas-biggest-cash-crop/#comment-4604 Rasta Boys » Blog Archive » Marijuana: America’s Biggest Cash Crop Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:49:15 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/18/marijuana-americas-biggest-cash-crop/#comment-4604 [...] Original post by Doug Mataconis and software by Elliott Back [...] [...] Original post by Doug Mataconis and software by Elliott Back [...]

]]> http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/18/marijuana-americas-biggest-cash-crop/#comment-4600 mike Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:49:04 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/18/marijuana-americas-biggest-cash-crop/#comment-4600 Heh, what he said. Heh, what he said.

]]> http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/18/marijuana-americas-biggest-cash-crop/#comment-4599 Brad Warbiany Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:40:02 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/18/marijuana-americas-biggest-cash-crop/#comment-4599 Doug, I just saw this and was going to post about it... And you beat me to it. Doug, I just saw this and was going to post about it… And you beat me to it.

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