LANSING, MI (AP)-- A pair of bills making it illegal to try to get someone to buy a behind-the-counter
pharmaceutical drug that can be used to manufacture methamphetamine is headed to Governor Rick Snyder.
The Michigan Senate approved legislation sponsored by Democratic Representative John Kivela and Republican Senators Tom Casperson and Margaret O’Brien Tuesday to stop attempts to solicit someone to buy pseudoephedrine. The bills would make the crime a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Soliciting someone to buy pseudoephedrine knowing it would be used to make meth already is a felony.
Pseudoephedrine is used to treat congestion. An analysis says the bills are aimed mainly at small, behind-the-counter drugstore purchases of medications containing pseudoephedrine.