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Advocate claims pseudoephedrine ban was 'rushed' ahead of Seymour's new bill

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 20 Feb 2024, 6:28pm
The government banned over-the-counter sales of pseudoephedrine in 2011, with then-prime minister Sir John Key touting it as a way to combat methamphetamine production. Photo / NZME
The government banned over-the-counter sales of pseudoephedrine in 2011, with then-prime minister Sir John Key touting it as a way to combat methamphetamine production. Photo / NZME

Advocate claims pseudoephedrine ban was 'rushed' ahead of Seymour's new bill

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 20 Feb 2024, 6:28pm

A man who's advocated for bringing back pseudoephedrine wants official recognition it was a bad idea.

John Key's Government removed the cold and flu medication, hoping to stall meth manufacture.

Associate Health Minister David Seymour is introducing a bill this  to reclassify the drug, so it's available in pharmacies without a prescription.

Blackland PR director, Mark Blackham says a moral panic about meth forced the rushed ban, despite evidence showing it wouldn't work.

"I think the only way of stopping bad decisions in the future is to get Governments to apologise for the role they had."

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