Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is again calling on requiring a prescription for certain cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in making methamphetamine.
Speaking Monday before the Missouri Sheriff’s Association, which is holding their summer training conference this week in Springfield, Koster said that “continued inaction is allowing for a flourishing meth trade in this state.”
He said that with some counties and cities enacting prescription requirements on the drug, there has been a decline in cases, but more needs to be done. Koster is pushing the General Assembly to pass a statewide prescription requirement, noting that “we need to cut off their supply chain.”
In 2012, there were 1,985 meth incidents in Missouri. Through March of this year, the latest figures available from the state Highway Patrol, there had been 480 such incidents.
Koster also addressed new legislation which ends the agency’s handling of concealed carry weapon permits Aug. 28, and instead requires every sheriff to maintain, house, and issue the permits beginning January 1.
The Missouri Sheriff’s Association’s Summer Training Conference in Springfield runs through Aug. 1.
