Criminal Law

Your Mind on Meth
The Economist is running a series this week on meth. Their Democracy in America blog points us to the Montana Meth Project and current anti-meth ads:

OK, so maybe Missouri ISN'T the king of meth ...
The Columbia Missourian takes a closer look at Missouri's meth problem. Though we lead the country in the number of meth lab raids, the amount of actual meth recovered is pretty small...

Friday Poem: "Thoughts After Snyder's Poem"
Thoughts After Snyder's Poem What you should know The poet said To be a poet To which I add a word: Know who you are are not Where your darkness starts Words' weight in drams and scruples What other poets...

68 arrested in St. Louis-area meth crackdown
Many of those are accused of buying pseudoephedrine for meth cooks. More here from the P-D.

Meth Use Down in UT
So say the latest stats. Let?s wait and watch to see if ID, with its new Meth Project effort, has a similar decline to UT, without a Meth Project, and attributes the decrease to the Project, hmm? It would be a nice example of a point we make here frequently regarding our tendency to mistake our rain dances for effectiveness when it rains even though other states that don?t do the dances get rain, too.

Politics: Meth bill moves forward
Last month, I commented on an Arizona meth bill that would scarily put Arizona Child Protective Services in charge of more lives and allow them to have meth-addicted women be taken into custody and involuntarily held in treatment programs...