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Drugs
containing pseudoephedrine and other substances that could be used to make
methamphetamine have been banned from sale on the Internet auction site eBay.
Company officials said the move came as states have passed various laws to
control spread of methamphetamine precursor chemicals. "It became really not
possible for us to make sure people were not inadvertently breaking the law by
selling in one state where it's legal to a state where it's not legal anymore,"
said eBay spokesperson Hani Durzy.
Durzy said that eBay had not seen large numbers of suspicious chemical sales,
but drug-enforcement officials said that Internet auctions were becoming more
popular with methamphetamine makers. "Anything that keeps precursors out of the
hands of those who want to turn them into Meth is a good thing," said Drug
Enforcement Administration spokesman Bill Grante.
Some recent auctions on eBay included a lot of 1,000 30-milligram tablets of
pseudoephedrine. The DEA has been working with eBay for the past six months to
control such sales.
A number of states have recently passed laws requiring that retailers pull drugs
containing pseudoephedrine and ephedrine from store shelves and only sell them
from behind pharmacy counters.
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