Posted on 09/30/2009 4:15:28 AM PDT by Portnoy
UPDATE: The TODAY Show on Tuesday featured a story you read here last week. A Michigan woman is threatened with a fine by the Michigan Department of Human Services for letting her neighbors' kids stay at her house before the school bus arrives.
MORE: Sally Harpold is a grandmother of triplets who bought one box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband at a Rockville pharmacy. Less than seven days later, she bought a box of Mucinex-D cold medicine for her adult daughter at a Clinton pharmacy, thereby purchasing 3.6 grams total of pseudoephedrine in a week’s time.
The end result? Mrs. Harpold was led away in handcuffs by the police! Her "crime"? Purchasing more than 3 grams of pseudoephedrine within seven days.
Read more & see the video HERE
Why doesn’t the TODAY show look at ACORN?
Remember - working for the government is hard. You have to balance the need for more money, less work, more importance, job advancement and it helps if you are not to bright.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. - Theodore Roosevelt
Exactly
In the first story I can’t help but womder which of the bus stop ladies neighbors ratted her out. They need to find that neighbor and kick her butt for her.
In the second story I am ignorant of any law that takes your name when you buy over the counter medicine.
Just like the SS of Hitler and the KGB of Stalin. When we the People allow the Government to become dictators they will do whatever they want. It is time for the people to take back their country by electing real Americans and making sure that they will fire any and all who violate the Constitution, like has been done in these two stories.
Times are tough.
It's the same thing you used to have to do when you bought codeine or paregoric syrup. Those are by prescription only now, I think.
But the registry isn't the problem, everybody's had those for certain dangerous drugs since at least the 50s, probably longer. It's lack of investigation by the cops before arresting somebody.
It has been one of my contentions for a long time, that many laws are on the books solely for those that wish to abide by them.
Really like your HippoAss blog, especially the coverage of all the good things in Michigan and also the crazzzness in DeToilet. Keep up the good work, Citizen Journalism is the real ‘Yes we Can’ investigate & hold responsible our dear leaders and their media hand maidens!
Thanks for that great quote. I have a collection of quotes that I call on when I need to make a point, usually to a liberal!
Don’t dare to can vegetables in your kitchen now and try to sell it!
I had been buying pickled beets from a local farmers wife at the farmers market for over ten years. She had to sell them to me out of her truck this last time as if it was some kind of dope deal!
When pickled beets become criminal, only criminals will buy pickled beets! Stay safe!
The United States Congress has recognized the use of pseudoephedrine in the illicit manufacture of methamphetamine. In late 2005, the Committee on Education and the Workforce heard testimony concerning education programs and state legislation designed to curb the use and manufacture of methamphetamine with pseudoephedrine-containing products. State laws in Oregon and Kansas were particularly influential in the proposed legislation.The House passed the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 ("CMEA") as an amendment to the renewal of the Patriot Act. Signed into law by president George W. Bush on March 6, 2006, the act amended Title 21 of the United States Code (21 USC 830) concerning the sale of pseudoephedrine-containing products. The Federal statute included the following requirements for merchants ("regulated seller") who sell these products (pseudoephedrine is defined as a "scheduled listed chemical product under 21 U.S.C. § 802(45(A)):
- A retrievable record of all purchases identifying the name and address of each party to be kept for two years.
- Required verification of proof of identity of all purchasers
- Required protection and disclosure methods in the collection of personal information
- Reports to the Attorney General of any suspicious payments or disappearances of the regulated products
- Required training of employees with regard to the requirements of the CMEA; Retailer must self-certify as to training and compliance
- Non-liquid dose form of regulated product may only be sold in unit dose blister packs
- Regulated products are to be stored behind the counter or in a locked cabinet in such a way as to restrict public access
- Daily sales of regulated products not to exceed 3.6 grams without regard to the number of transactions
- 30 day (not monthly) sales limit not to exceed 7.5 grams if sold by mail-order or "mobile retail vendor"
- 30 day purchase limit not to exceed 9 grams of pseudoephedrine base in regulated products (misdemeanor possession offense under 21 U.S.C. § 844a for the individual who buys it)
Forty-one individual states also have varying laws on the matter: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawai'i (as of May 1, 2009) Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana (as of August 15, 2009)[20] Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Washington laws require pharmacies to sell pseudoephedrine behind-the-counter and to collect personal information from the purchaser. Oregon requires a prescription to purchase products containing pseudoephedrine.
You are probably right. It sounds logical.
In Wisconsin, one must sign the registry AND show a photo ID before receiving cold meds. Funny, but the reason that our criminal Dem governor gives for always vetoing photo ID for voting is that it is a barrier to the poor and elderly. And yet granny can pound sand if she happens to get the sniffles.
:)
Thank you!
Why?
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