Maine Compass: Drug restrictions wrong way to stop meth
5.2.2017 – Robert Nutting, Central Maine
Each year Maine legislators are faced with important decisions about making us safer and improving access to health care with as little government interference in our daily lives as possible. This year they must decide how to reduce the abuse of methamphetamine, or meth.
As a licensed pharmacist and a former state representative, I am particularly concerned about meth abuse in Maine and I applaud the Legislature for trying to address this scourge. There are, however, bills being proposed in Maine’s Legislature which, if they become law, will greatly interfere with law-abiding citizens while doing virtually nothing to stem the use of meth.
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