BIPPS tackles meth 'compromise' in Herald-Leader op-ed

In his op-ed in today's Lexington Herald-Leader, Jim Waters, vice president of policy and communications, discussed the latest attempt by some politicians and pencil pushers at law enforcement agencies to make pseudoephedrine a controlled substance.

An attempt to exempt "gel" or "liquid-gel" caps from requiring a prescription is being called a compromise. But Waters writes it's no such thing: "It remains what it's always been: an attack on Kentuckians' individual liberty. ... This new tactic by logically challenged politicians reveals the same intellectual denseness demonstrated all along in this fight. They believe keeping law-abiding citizens from purchasing Sudafed would somehow keep pseudoephedrine out of the hands of criminals who make the destructive drug methamphetamine.

He also points out: "Kentuckians concerned about their liberties should be suspicious that suddenly, these same folks — unwilling to compromise with proposals that would still allow citizens to buy whatever legal cold, allergy and sinus medicines they want while containing the meth problem — now say they could live with this proposal."

Read Waters' Bluegrass Beacon column on the original proposal here.