Online auction giant eBay has banned sales of medication containing pseudoephedrine and ephedrine, key chemicals in making methamphetamine.
Drug officials say it is a move that will cut off an emerging pipeline for the illicit meth trade, the Portland Oregonian said Friday.
The decision resulted from a rapidly changing landscape of laws governing the sale of pseudoephedrine that made it increasingly difficult for eBay to police its auctions, company spokesman Hani Durzy said. Several states have passed laws in recent months that restrict pseudoephedrine sales.
‘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,’ Durzy said.
He declined to say how many pseudoephedrine auctions eBay has pulled.
The Drug Enforcement Administration had worked with eBay for at least six months to stop such sales.

Posted: 10|1|05 at 9:48 am. Filed under: US News.