editorial comment the curse of the danaides......

Producers of methamphetamine in Kentucky are circumventing stricter laws regulating the drug's ingredients by traveling to states with looser laws to purchase the pills they need, police said.

The state law passed in 2002 that made possession of more than 24 grams of ephedrine or pseudophedrine illegal was intended to crack down on the manufacturers of meth, which has become an epidemic in many poor Kentucky areas.

However, police said an increasing number of meth producers are buying pseudophedrine pills from pharmacies or wholesalers in nearby states, then bringing them back to Kentucky.

In September, police arrested a man and a woman and seized nearly 7,000 pills after being tipped the two were purchasing large quantities of the tablets in Atlanta and transporting them to a meth lab in Kentucky.

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