Responding To Huck on Meth

On This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Huck said that newer tough laws on Meth were "overreaching". Fred's campaign has released a press release today demonstrating why this is not the case. The press release is clearly worded in a way to play in Iowa, but the point are valid anywhere. From the release:

Here are a few Iowa facts Gov. Huckabee should consider before he coddles any more meth dealers:

• Meth is the third-highest abused drug in Iowa behind alcohol and marijuana.
• Over the past six years, 7,500 cases of child abuse due to meth labs were reported in Iowa.
• From 2004 to 2006, Iowa prisoners were incarcerated for meth-related crimes more than twice as much as criminals guilty of cocaine-based and marijuana-based crime combined.
• In 2006, 13.6% of Iowa adults in treatment cited Meth as the primary reason for their problems.
• One of 10 infants in Iowa is born with meth exposure.
• Eighty-five percent of babies in Iowa foster care come in with meth exposure.
• In 2006, nearly half (46.7%) of abused Iowa children came from parents who use meth.

The remainder of the release detailed what Huck did (and defended on This Week) about Meth in 2005. To summarize, he reduced the sentences of Meth dealers/manufacturers by about 50%.

Is that socially conservative?