{"id":297,"date":"2006-12-06T14:04:30","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T14:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/archives\/297"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:14:11","slug":"national-online-meth-makers-registry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/national-online-meth-makers-registry\/","title":{"rendered":"National Online “Meth-Makers” Registry"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to an MSNBC article<\/a> published earlier today, many States are considering the creation of another type of Online Offenders Registry \u2013 one for anyone involved in the \u201ccooking\u201d or dealing of methamphetamine<\/a>. Online Offenders Registries in the United States were previously restricted to sex offenders, namely, rapists and pedophiles. The question is, \u201cWhat\u2019s the point, and why just meth?\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Tennessee, the first to implement such a system in March of 2005, has the highest rate of meth abuse. Jennifer Johnson of the PR Dept. at the Tennessee\u2019s regional version of the FBI makes a case for an internet registry that lists meth \u2013 and meth only \u2013 makers:\n<\/p>\n

\u201cUnlike other drugs where it is really [only] harmful to you and your family, meth is hazardous to all around you. [\u2026] That\u2019s why we don\u2019t foresee a heroin or cocaine registry.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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What Johnson is referring to are the \u201cmeth factories\u201d required in the production of amphetamines<\/a>. Unlike other drugs and illegal substances, \u201ccooking\u201d meth results in highly-dangerous toxic waste, that can affect entire communities and is relatively expensive to clean. However, given that Meth Makers\u2019 Registry lists only contain the location of the meth lab in question and the name of those involved in its production, its viability as a measure of public safety and its preference over the creation of other drug registries becomes questionable.\n<\/p>\n

Since the Meth Registry only contains the ex-location of meth labs, and doesn\u2019t contain actual address of offenders, its unlikely that it would be of any use since its impossible for the same location \u2013 once compromised \u2013 to be used again for the same purpose. Given that it doesn\u2019t list users<\/em> of meth, but only those involved in the production and sale of amphethetamines, might it not be more useful to create a registry of more-commonly abused (and more dangerous) drugs like cocaine and heroine.\n<\/p>\n

If the point of the National Online Meth Registry is to protect the public and provide information vital to the safety of individuals and the community at large, perhaps the efforts of the FBI would be best implemented in a registry that lists the actual & registered physical addresses of those convicted in the creation and distribution of meth and\/or other more lethal substances.\n<\/p>\n

In a time where tapping of phone lines and monitoring of any and all email has become the daily norm in the United States, its not the privacy issues that would inhibit the creation of such a registry1<\/a><\/sup> but rather its purpose and usefulness to the society as a whole.<\/p>\n

  1. Such was the case when the sex offenders list was first proposed and later implemented ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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