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A new federal law could help local police in their battle against the state's meth epidemic.

That proposed new law is co-sponsored by Senator Evan Bayh. Bayh is taking a page from his home state's play book and giving it a national reach. This week, he helped pass the 'Combat Meth Act'. It requires pharmacies to keep over-the-counter drugs used to make meth behind the counter. It also limits the amount of the drugs someone can buy. Right now, some states, including Indiana, have laws like this, but meth makers often get around the law by going to a neighboring state without the behind the counter policy.

Police say this happens often in northeastern Indiana when people cross the border to Ohio . That's why the national law would make manufacturing meth a lot harder.

“There's nothing to stop someone from going from Indiana to Ohio to buy the ingredients they need. So by making it a federal law, they can no longer just jump across the line and get what they want,” Allen County Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Stone said.

This is not a federal law yet. It has been approved by the United States Congress, but President Bush still needs to sign it. If approved by the president, the law would also provide 20 million dollars to help children whose parents are addicted to meth

my daughter works in one of the drug courts in ky the crystal meth (from mexico) is on the rise here because you can only purchase one box of sudfed/ from drug store. now they have cut funding for the drug task force in 2007 also the drug courts

Federal Funding for Drug Task Force Could Be Cut
Drug Task Force Grant

Getting drug dealers off the streets is the goal of drug task forces around the state. Now a grant that goes toward keeping the agencies operating could be eliminated from the 2007 federal budget. It's called the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, or Byrne-JAG grant.

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