ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities allege that the quest to make methamphetamine has led to an unlikely alliance between a white supremacist and a black inner-city gang member.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/yk97Op) reports that Aryan Nations member Richard Treis and Robert "Biz" Swinney are among seven people facing federal charges for conspiracy to make meth, distribution of meth and other drug-related crimes.
Amazing what people will do to make money, huh?
The other thing here is the real problem with meth, drug laws, and over the counter medicines. Poorly thought out measures have created an industry that has people buying ingredients for meth and reselling the medicine for enough that criminals can live off the profit. A new class of criminal has been created. Why risk meth charges when you can deal in Sudafed instead? Jay Nixon is trying to make it so you have to have a prescription to use medicines with pseudoephedrine. That won't help, but he refuses to acknowledge that it will put a burden on the poor while giving the Sudafed bandits even more financial reward. The people who are underinsured or have no coverage at all will suffer so that Jay Nixon can score a political victory. Hell, there are too many rural poor who can't afford the cold medicine.
You can always rely on Jay Nixon to take drugs seriously, you know. Unless his son is involved. When it comes to him, it's amazing how lenient "reasonable doubt" can be. Thanks to his regulations, there is now profit in reselling certain drugs. Regular folks are treated like criminals for getting cold medicine. Jay Nixon's son can be surrounded by pot but for lack of evidence the charges were dropped. Stupidity all around.
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