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An emergency ordinance gets the go ahead by the Bay County Commission.
The ordinance requires the electronic record keeping of products that can be used to make methamphetamine such as over-the-counter cold medicines. The unanimous vote of approval came at the commission meeting this morning.
If you want to buy the products in question there are already state laws that you have to follow. This Bay County law helps reinforce those rules.
The state requires documentation when you buy allergy pills, like Sudafed, Claritin-D, or Mucinex-D, that contain ephederin or pseodophedrine. That’s because these medicines can be used to cook meth.
The county ordinance makes it easier to track your purchases by putting the information online. It’s made possible though an internet database called Meth Check.
Today, Sheriff Frank McKeithen asked the commission to support the program in order to pursue the battle against the drug. But some worry that the ordinance is a infringement of privacy.
“We’re just changing the way that they register and that way it’ll help the Sheriff put another tool in his bag to help stop some of this meth problem,” said Bay County Commissioner Mike Thomas.
“I’m not trying to give information about your medicine out. This is over the counter pills that you take when you have a runny nose,” said Sheriff Frank McKeithen.
The tools to scan in your driver’s license, a signature and a bar code of the product will be provided to drugstores free of charge. The ordinance is effectively immediately.
Cities plan to take the ordinance into consideration too. First up, is Panama City Beach.
I am fully behind Sheriff McKeithen on this. It does no good to track purchases if there is no central database.
I think it is a great idea. Now when these meth makers and users go in to the store to buy them they know they are being watched. I think it is a great way for the state to see who is buying these meds off the shelf. People who have been using meth and makeing meth are not going to want to go inside and have to show their I.D just to buy these meds off the shelf.
There are alternitives to drugs with ephederine and pseodophedrine in them, alternatives made by the same companies that state are no different than the ones which are a problem! Why don’t they just take the problem drugs off the shelf? Does anybody have an answere to this question? Would love to know. Thanks.
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Jackson County needs to follow suit, this county is infested with methamphetamines and Ice,it has taken over so many lives and to be quite honest I am fed up with the way the Drug Task Force chooses to ignore it being cooked right under the
Captains nose, and he knows who is doing it but turns a blind eye to certain people who are literally killing theirselves and their children with it. It is sad when you can smell it in the air and they know its there but ignore it.FDLE and FBI need to do Operation Smithville/Racepond
and save these kids and addicts from their own destruction!