It's more difficult to buy cold medicine in Virginia than it is a gun...

check this crap:

http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+18.2-248.8

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ON EDIT: When you look at the penalty's between the two.

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my driver's license each time.

It's very hard to kill with Cold Medicine; but maybe if they started packing it in really sharp bottles, It'd have a chance.

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of cold medicines. I don't know how much it has helped to reduce meth production by making these medicines more difficult to obtain, but Arkansas has had a big problem with methamphetamines in the past. I can't find the date of this article, but it states that over 1,300 meth labs had been seized the previous year.

http://www.drug-rehabs.org/content.php?cid=1296&state=Arkansas

When compared to national figures for sentencing, Arkansas is much higher than the norm. These are the latest figures I could find.

Table 2. Percentage of Drug-Related Federal Sentences for Methamphetamine, Arkansas and United States, FY1997-FY2001
Arkansas United States
FY1997 30.8 10.2
FY1998 35.5 11.4
FY1999 27.9 12.8
FY2000 41.9 14.5
FY2001 33.3 14.2

http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs6/6184/meth.htm

According to this article from 2000 ". . .the state led the nation last year in the number of lab seizures per capita. . ."

http://www.kci.org/meth_info/sites/ark_drug%20cleanup.htm

I don't know how easy or how hard it is to buy a gun in the state, but these are some of the reasons for trying to control cold medicines.