SOCIETY PAYS FOR BEING LENIENT ON METH MAKERS

Oregon lawmakers should stop slapping the hands of meth makers and
give them harsher punishments.

I think it's wrong to make it so people have to get a prescription
for cold medications. The people who make the meth need to be locked
up and the key thrown away.

All this law will do is punish people who don't make meth. So what
will happen is people are going to have to pay more health-care
co-pays just to get a prescription to help take care of a cold.

People who don't have health care are going to go to the emergency
rooms and rack up health-care costs that they can't afford, which
others will have to foot the bill on. For what? Just so they can feel better.

Oregon lawmakers need to make better laws like finding out more about
teachers who are actual sex offenders teaching our children; or
better yet, find a way to fix the Oregon Health Plan so costs of
health care stop rising.

- -- Helen Pendergraft

Salem