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- Compromise Meds-for-meth Bill Clears Committee; Third Drug-related Bill To Pass This Week
Update, March 2: Just hours after the committee approved the bill, Senate Majority Leader Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, "declared its future uncertain," reports Jack Brammer for the Lexington Herald-Leader. Stivers said there is "a very successful lobbying...
- Meds-for-meth Compromise Bill Introduced
Lawmakers said they would compromise on the idea of making pseudoephedrine available only by prescription, and they have. Senate Bill 3 would only require a prescription for medicines containing the drug after a patient has bought 3.6 grams of it per...
- Courier-journal Editorialists Change Position And Join The Herald-leader In Supporting Meds-for-meth Legislation
The state's two biggest newspapers are in agreement: pseudoephedrine should be available by prescription only in order to curb methamphetamine production. The Courier-Journal offered its opinion in an editorial today: "Meth remains a scourge in Kentucky....
- As Meds-for-meth Bill Dies, Backer Asks Colleagues To Find Solution
The bill that would have required prescriptions for three popular decongestants used to make methamphetamine "was buried today, but not without a eulogy and a promise to resurrect it," Renee Shaw reported for Kentucky Educational Television. KET's...
- Meds-for-meth Bill Backer Has Last-ditch Change To Exempt Liquids And Gelcaps, Which Police Expert Calls Inefficient Feedstocks
Jensen?Hoping to gain the few votes he needs, the sponsor of the bill that would require prescriptions for three popular decongestants said today that he will draft an amendment to exclude liquids and gelatin capsules from the bill, but doubts it will...
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Meds-for-meth bill sent back to committee; compromise in the works, original sponsor says
The bill that would make pseudoephedrine ? the key ingredient to make methamphetamine ? available only by prescription was taken off the Senate floor Thursday afternoon. The bill's original sponsor, Sen. Tom Jensen, R-London, said "he expects a compromise is near," reports Jessie Halladay for The Courier-Journal.
"We've probably reached some consensus on where we want to go," said Jensen, right, but declined to go into details about the compromise. Of a possible concession, he would only say, "It's not necessarily what I want and it's not necessarily what the industry wants," but would be a step in the right direction.
Senate Bill 50, which was narrowly approved by the Judiciary Committee last week, has been opposed by the pharmaceutical industry, which says it imposes an unnecessary burden on users who need the medicine for the relief of colds and allergies. Many law enforcement agencies, including the Kentucky Narcotics Officers Association, support the bill, saying it would made a big dent in the number of meth labs found in the state. The bill excludes pseudoephedrine that is sold gel-cap format. (Read more)
- Compromise Meds-for-meth Bill Clears Committee; Third Drug-related Bill To Pass This Week
Update, March 2: Just hours after the committee approved the bill, Senate Majority Leader Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, "declared its future uncertain," reports Jack Brammer for the Lexington Herald-Leader. Stivers said there is "a very successful lobbying...
- Meds-for-meth Compromise Bill Introduced
Lawmakers said they would compromise on the idea of making pseudoephedrine available only by prescription, and they have. Senate Bill 3 would only require a prescription for medicines containing the drug after a patient has bought 3.6 grams of it per...
- Courier-journal Editorialists Change Position And Join The Herald-leader In Supporting Meds-for-meth Legislation
The state's two biggest newspapers are in agreement: pseudoephedrine should be available by prescription only in order to curb methamphetamine production. The Courier-Journal offered its opinion in an editorial today: "Meth remains a scourge in Kentucky....
- As Meds-for-meth Bill Dies, Backer Asks Colleagues To Find Solution
The bill that would have required prescriptions for three popular decongestants used to make methamphetamine "was buried today, but not without a eulogy and a promise to resurrect it," Renee Shaw reported for Kentucky Educational Television. KET's...
- Meds-for-meth Bill Backer Has Last-ditch Change To Exempt Liquids And Gelcaps, Which Police Expert Calls Inefficient Feedstocks
Jensen?Hoping to gain the few votes he needs, the sponsor of the bill that would require prescriptions for three popular decongestants said today that he will draft an amendment to exclude liquids and gelatin capsules from the bill, but doubts it will...