Gordon Clay here. It's called Shake & Bake, something the pharmaceutical industry is indirectly behind in it's current effort to undo the Oregon requirement that you must have a prescription to obtain cold medicines containing the basic ingredient needed for Meth manufacture.

Oklahoma was the 1st state to put such drugs behind the counter with buyer's signature required, shortly followed by Oregon. The result in both states was a dramatic, immediate reduction in Meth Labs.

Oregon, however, went a step further when the Legislature passed the Bill requiring the actual prescription for such drugs. That's the level of control now being sought to be repealed.

On Easter, 4/4/10 the Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer carried an article, with photo, of the rampant use of the Meth mobile "shake and bake" system that is permeating Indiana, Michigan (especially around Kalamazoo), Ohio and Oklahoma - all states with the "behind-the-counter-signature-required" control methodology.

In those, as well as some other states in the Midwest, users are having "smurfs" purchase legal amounts of the cold remedy drug, and then, while driving in vehicles, the Meth is being manufactured using the commercial type water bottles to mix and shake. When the useable Meth is removed, the remaining "garbage" is put into plastic bags and tossed alongside roadways.

Not only is the obvious roadside garbage being increased, in the Meth case, there are the residual toxic chemicals and acids included - even some water bottles appear full with a clear liquid.

Write your congressmen and tell them not to allow the pharmaceutical industry to help the increased production of Meth in Oregon just so they can sell more Sudefed.