77th (2013) Session
Opinions
View all submitted comments for each bill by the most recent, by votes for, or by votes against.
| AB39 | ||
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| Against | May-08-2013 | |
| For | Apr-11-2013 | |
| For | Apr-10-2013 | |
| Against | This is a good idea for retail pharmacies, but you need to make an exemption for closed door pharmacies that service a small selected group of consumers. For example many hospitals have in house pharmacies that prepare meds for the patients but also as a courtesy fill employee scripts. I think those pharmacist can pretty well vet any inappropriate sales of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine without being required to research a stop sales database. If you were to exempt certain closed door pharmacies from the provisions of this bill, I could support it. | Apr-07-2013 |
| Against | Apr-07-2013 | |
| Against | Apr-03-2013 | |
| Against | Apr-01-2013 | |
| Against | Mar-19-2013 | |
| Against | Using a comment from below as it says it all: I don't like meth dealers or meth related crime like most people, but it is none of the State's business if I choose to buy a product with ephedrine. If I wanted to live in a bureaucratic nightmare, I'd live in Big Sis California. The State of Nevada has no business snooping on or trying to regulate lawful acts by citizens. Ephedrines have valid uses. This bill just adds expenses to the State, layers of bureaucracy, expenses to businesses, and additional burdens upon citizens to prove they aren't criminals. If you want to improve the situation, fix the previous version of NRS 453 and remove the insane and non-effective requirements placed upon ephedrine sales. Let businesses choose to act responsibly and keep ephedrines behind the counter if they want to (which most do, to prevent theft). | Mar-19-2013 |
| Against | Mar-16-2013 | |
| Against | Mar-13-2013 | |
| Against | Does anyone ever look at or request those pages and pages of data they collect in pharmacies whenever someone buys a box of Sudafed. Obviously trying to deter crime is a good thing but adding layers and layers of paperwork is ridiculous. Will this bill REALLY stop the production of illegal drugs or just limit the options of law-abiding citizens? How much will it cost pharmacies (and the public) to obtain this "real-time, stop sale system"? And now a prescription for pseudo-ephedrine to prove you aren't a druggie and avoid your name being entered into a "statewide system"? There must be a better way to fight this problem. | Mar-10-2013 |
| Against | Adding more red tape to business is not the answer to controlling meth - I would rather see drug testing added to financial and housing aide receipients and/or stronger laws that support investigation, prosicutiion and imprisonment/confinement of those who make, market, distribute or use Meth. | Feb-27-2013 |
| Against | There should be no limits under law as to the amount of lawful drugs a person can buy at a time. This law will be a waste of tax dollars, a hassle on pharmacies, and an infringement of liberties for individuals. | Feb-24-2013 |
| Against | Why must you always made the law abiding pay the price for criminal activity?Instead of placing more stupid time wasting burdens on regular folks why not get serious with drug pushers???? Make it so miserable for them when they are caught they never will do this again. Leave us tax payers and working people alone!! | Feb-19-2013 |
| Against | I don't like meth dealers or meth related crime like most people, but it is none of the State's business if I choose to buy a product with ephedrine. If I wanted to live in a bureaucratic nightmare, I'd live in Big Sis California. The State of Nevada has no business snooping on or trying to regulate lawful acts by citizens. Ephedrines have valid uses. This bill just adds expenses to the State, layers of bureaucracy, expenses to businesses, and additional burdens upon citizens to prove they aren't criminals. If you want to improve the situation, fix the previous version of NRS 453 and remove the insane and non-effective requirements placed upon ephedrine sales. Let businesses choose to act responsibly and keep ephedrines behind the counter if they want to (which most do, to prevent theft). | Feb-10-2013 |
| Against | Feb-08-2013 | |
| Against | While I understand the desire to disable the networks of individuals and groups producing "home cooked" methamphetamine by limiting their access to precursor chemicals, I believe that a cost-benefit study of a real-time reporting system must be performed prior to the implementation of legislation. Since methamphetamine in Nevada may be mainly coming in from Mexico through Narco-tunnels and trafficking in San Diego and Arizona, it would be very important to determine if the cost of a real-time system is the most effective use of taxpayer dollars in preventing Meth from hitting the streets. Such systems hardware and software are VERY expensive to implement, program, monitor, and enter data into. They are NOT free to taxpayers, although the computers may be "free" to pharmacies. Then the pharmacies must pay for their man-hours looking up every purchaser of cold medicine. The conclusion everyone needs to draw FIRST is: how much meth (estimated) will be removed from the street per taxpayer dollar spent on the system? If that question has been answered to the satisfaction of legislators, law enforcement, and the taxpayer, then such a system should be easy to sell. If, however, the return on investment is negligible, one should consider utilizing that funding in another way. Also, just for general knowledge, STATUTES (legislation) must come before ADMINISTRATIVE CODES (regulations), as the statutory requirements drive the content of the codes. In many cases, they are written concurrently. | Feb-06-2013 |
| For | Feb-05-2013 | |
| Against | The concept is good, but you are going to pass a bill and THEN come up with the regulations for what would constitute a 'stop sale'? That is just absurd. | Feb-05-2013 |
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