Oh, look at that – TDB was right about ACT ramping up domestic meth cooking after all…
Officials back planned return of pseudoephedrine sales but suggest meth production increase
Officials have advised Associate Health Minister David Seymour, who leads the Misuse of Drugs (Pseudoephedrine) Amendment Bill, that the move comes with risks including a potential increase in domestic meth production, a higher likelihood pharmacies would be ram-raided and the potential for improper use.
…TDB has been warning you since ACT announced this nonsense policy at the election that this was a disaster waiting to happen!
This isn’t Government policy – it’s the script to Breaking Bad!
Allowing Pseudoephedrine, the precursor ingredient to meth back over the counter will generate ram raids, which is hilarious because Luxon is claiming allowing cigarettes to remain getting sold will prevent ram raids!
Most meth coming into the country right now is finished product. Domestic Alpha Gangs use Triad contacts to have meth mass manufactured and shipped in, the 501 syndicates use South American Cartel Meth. It is purer and cheaper than the Triad meth, and it is this difference of product that is generating the recent gang war assassination campaign.
What allowing Pseudoephedrine to be sold back over the counter will generate is a new homebake industry as smaller players locked out of global supply chains move into the market.
ACT are the Party that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing!
Just to be crystal meth clear here, ACT’s solutions are MORE machine guns and MORE meth precursor ingredients?
The market will work out the rest will it?
LET’S COOK!
Honestly Kiwis are thick, how come pseudoephedrine Pharma pimps and Tobacco interests seem to be more important to this Government than you know, actual health?
If you need pseudoephedrine you can get a prescription, allowing the raw material for the biggest illegal drug we have will simply open up a local homebake industry.
ACT always claim they support small business, but this is fucking insane.
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Supporting local businesses? Certainly the fake meth clean up companies.
Well – a victory for small businesses and an increase in competition. That’s at least consistent with ACT’s philosophy.
Surely the author supports local industry over multinational cartels…
So let’s see- the current Coalition of Cockups are “tough on crime” because they want to ban gang clothing, while simultaneously underpaying police, liberalising access to pseudoephedrine and semi-automatic weapons. And they claim this is a criminal justice policy? Looks more like a victory of form over substance to me.
So let’s summarize…
A smoking policy that will kill.
A drug policy that will cause harm and death.
And now a transport policy to increase speed limits that will cause more deaths.
This will be the legacy of the NZ Government 2023-26.