- {Kentucky}...A representative of companies that produce cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine, a main ingredient in methamphetamine, suggested to the Interim Joint Committee on the Judiciary Friday that Kentucky lawmakers need to consider an alternative rather than to require a prescription for the drugs.
Carlos Gutierrez, with the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, says those convicted of meth crimes could be placed on a registry of people banned from buying the drugs. Dan Smoot, who leads the drug task force Operation Unite in southeastern Kentucky, says a registry would not work because most of the people who make meth don't buy the cold medicines themselves.
