"It's going to force them to go to other states or quit," said Mark Woodward, spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.

The law, enacted April 6, bans all cold tablets containing pseudoephedrine from stores without a licensed pharmacist on staff.

Since then, seizures of meth labs in Oklahoma City declined from 14.5 a month to 5.3 labs a month. In Tulsa, seizures dropped from 17.5 to 8.4 labs a month.

Neighboring states are considering passing similar laws to prevent people from crossing state lines to buy large quantities of pseudoephedrine.

"We started seeing an increase in pill cases in May," said Lt. Alan Prince of the Wichita, Kan., police department. Since Oklahoma's law went into effect, Wichita has had 74 felony arrests for pseudoephedrine, up from the usual four or five cases a year.

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