Arresting a granny for cold medicine???

[John Dibble]

So from the article it seems the nice old lady bought two boxes of cold medicine within a week and that's enough to go over the limit - that just tells me that the limit is too low or enforcement is too strict. It's easily conceivable that a family that has one person get sick will have other people get sick as well, since diseases are often contagious, so it's easily conceivable that someone would need to buy more medicine within a week's time.

The law could be fixed in a few ways. One would be to just raise the limit. This could just let meth producers buy more, so it's probably not the desired solution. A better idea would be to look at patterns of people going over the limit - if little old granny goes over the limit once or twice in a year, she's probably not out to produce meth and can effectively be ignored. On the other hand if someone is going over the limit on a more frequent basis, or even if they're purchasing under the limit but on a weekly basis, it might be worth investigation.