These places banned booze. Now they're dealing with something far worse - The Washington Post

 

The Louisville researchers noticed that dry counties had higher rates of meth lab busts, as well as higher rates of meth crimes overall. And the effect is significant: "if all counties were to become wet, the total number of meth lab seizures in Kentucky would decline by about 25 percent," they found.

 

Interesting

 

One correlation also is that the "Dry" counties are probably as a whole poorer than the wet or moist counties. Economics probably has more to do with it than booze.

Reduction in Meth production is why I now have a very strict limit on how much Claritin D I can buy. I say let the dry counties buy booze and let me buy Claritin D as much Claritin D as I want.

Reduction in Meth production is why I now have a very strict limit on how much Claritin D I can buy. I say let the dry counties buy booze and let me buy Claritin D as much Claritin D as I want.

It wouldn't matter how much booze was available, if your Claritin D was back out on the shelf like it used to be or with no limits...the number of Meth Labs would explode. Those limits more than anything else have slowed the amount of Meth production in KY over the last several years.

Interesting

 

One correlation also is that the "Dry" counties are probably as a whole poorer than the wet or moist counties. Economics probably has more to do with it than booze.

 

You realize the dry county also has a correlation to those areas being worse off on an economic scale .

 

But we all know a majority of humans want some way to unwind , not all but most. So why in the world would governments in those areas restrict access to booze forcing people to find other ways to get high.

 

This issue while not major drives me nuts about my home state.

Beer is good.

Beer is good.

 

Meth is bad.

Beer is good.

 

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And people are crazy .... sounds like a country song

You realize the dry county also has a correlation to those areas being worse off on an economic scale .

 

But we all know a majority of humans want some way to unwind , not all but most. So why in the world would governments in those areas restrict access to booze forcing people to find other ways to get high.

 

This issue while not major drives me nuts about my home state.

 

There's a reason Prohibition didn't work.

I'm a pharmacist and I can definitely say we profile people on our Sudafed purchases. They make a new pseudo ephedrine product called Nexafed that is impossible to make into Meth so that is what we offer to people who we deem risky. At my last job it wasn't a problem but when I moved to my new job I quickly found out the issues they had and what they were doing.

 

I can't tell you how many times how we have sold Sudafed to who we deemed a less risky person only to have a group follow up not 5 minutes later who sent off alarm bells. It can be a real problem in some areas.

^For the record, the county I'm living in is not a dry county but they do have restrictions on liquor licenses, etc that are a bit more than the norm.

You realize the dry county also has a correlation to those areas being worse off on an economic scale .

 

But we all know a majority of humans want some way to unwind , not all but most. So why in the world would governments in those areas restrict access to booze forcing people to find other ways to get high.

 

This issue while not major drives me nuts about my home state.

 

That was my point...

^For the record, the county I'm living in is not a dry county but they do have restrictions on liquor licenses, etc that are a bit more than the norm.

I think they all have restrictions set by the state on the number of Liquor Stores and Bars...beer should be available pretty much everywhere in a wet county.

I think they all have restrictions set by the state on the number of Liquor Stores and Bars...beer should be available pretty much everywhere in a wet county.

 

His county may be somewhere where there's only one town/city that's wet and the rest is dry/moist. Pike Co. was kind of like that, if I remember correctly, in that you couldn't get package liquor there — had to go to Coal Run. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong.

 

Eminence is wet while the rest of Henry Co. is dry. Same goes for Cumberland and Harlan Co., unless that's changed. When I went to WKU, I believe BG itself was wet but Warren Co. was dry. Some of these may have changed in recent years, as a lot of counties have changed their blue laws.