Rep. Boozman cracks down on candy-flavored methamphetamine dealers and manufacturers.
On May 22, I introduced H.R. 2425, the “Stop Marketing Illegal Drugs to Minors Act,” to protect Arkansas’s, and our nation’s, children, by going after drug traffickers which manufacture and market drugs to appeal to children.
I specifically targeted a new poison being sold to our children, candy-flavored methamphetamines. This new type of product has spread across the nation since the start of 2007. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, drug dealers are pushing flavored meth in order to lure in children as new customers by creating the impression the candy-like taste makes the drug less dangerous.
There is only one reason why drug manufacturers and dealers would make their poison taste like candy: to prey on our children. This new product is not going after those who are already hooked.
Meth is usually bitter tasting. Sweetening meth makes it easier to ingest. Flavored meth is meant to lure in the new user, in the hopes of making them a long-term customer.
Marketing meth and other illict drugs this way is the equivalent of child abuse; the dealers of this junk are child abusers, and the should be punished accordingly.
For more information on my bill, click here.
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