Budget Watch Nevada

This week in the legislature, the Assembly Health and Human Services committee is due to review AB150, which would restrict the sale of ingredients used in making methamphetamines. Also in the hopper: AB149, which would appropriate $2 million of your hard-earned tax dollars for anti-meth “programs.”

Let’s think about this. Two million dollars? Who, exactly, is going to benefit from such expenditures? Addicts? Recreational users? I doubt it. We don’t have the resources or manpower to track them all down and take them to court and arrest them for abusing their own bodies (all while harming no one else). The money will be (mis)spent on bureaucrats and social workers to design, implement, and monitor programs. These people are addicts of another bent — they are addicted to taxpayer money and funding for unproven, often unnecessary, programs.

Some law enforcement control freaks would also get some money, likely for new gear or equipment or pain-inducing weapons, not of which really helps the actual “victim” in all this, the misguided user of a pernicious drug.

Stop the war on drugs. Let’s call for a war on government growth and power addiction.