Although Oregon successfully wiped out local manufacture of methamphetamine after the state adopted tight restrictions on ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, that's not the case in other Western states. Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine are the ingredients in cold medicine used to make meth.

And since Mexico banned pseudoephedrine four years ago, Mexican drug trafficking organizations are now manufacturing the drug in California, Arizona, Nevada and Washington.

"They can't make the good stuff in Mexico, so they're making the good stuff back in America," said Rob Bovett, Lincoln County district attorney, who serves as legal counsel to the Oregon Narcotics Enforcement Association and had chaired Oregon's Meth Task Force.

Bovett said Mexican drug organizations are manufacturing large amounts of methamphetamine in California, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Seattle, paying people to purchase pseudoephedrine products for the production of the drug. The process has become known as smurfing, or supersmurfing, where traffickers pay dozens of people to buy pseudoephedrine in quantities at or below legal thresholds from multiple retail stores.

A Fresno County investigation, for example, found that a couple had been soliciting homeless individuals to travel from store to store to buy pseudoephedrine, paying each $30, according to a report from the National Drug Intelligence Center.

"They're supersmurfing everywhere across the West Coast, except Oregon," Bovett said.

That's why Bovett testified before the California Legislature last month, urging the state's lawmakers to follow Oregon's lead and require prescriptions for pseudoephedrine and ephedrine. He called California's Senate Bill 315, modeled after Oregon's legislation, "the most important bill for Oregon's drug-endangered children."

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