Pubdate: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB) Copyright: 2003, Canoe Limited Partnership. Contact: http://www.fyiedmonton.com/htdocs/edmsun.shtml Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/135 Author: Stuart Pedjujs Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1717/a08.html SOMETHING HAS GONE DESPERATELY WRONG RE: "COURT backs cop tactic," Nov. 4. Thanks to this decision by our Court of Appeal, our police may now legally sell ephedrine, at least, to "known" drug dealers who "appear to be active in their field," in an ongoing series of methamphetamine manufacturing "reverse-sting" operations. When police are both asking for ever-increasing budgets to combat the scourge of meth labs and supplying the raw ephedrine to get the lab operational, something has gone desperately wrong. Will they be supplying the raw materials for any other kinds of dangerous and highly explosive manufacturing processes we should know about? After all, if this kind of "novel undercover tactic" works with getting meth-manufacturing operations up and running so successfully, why not use it with other threats to our security? Stuart Pedjujs (You're not happy about this.) - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Stevens