Need cold medicine? Keep your ID handy [will have to have ID logged to buy cold medication]

Pajamas Media ^ | Jun 2, 2006

[Paloma_55]

No problem.

I have to show it to use my Visa card when I buy the stuff anyway.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The War on Some Drugs is a far bigger threat to freedom than a few little NSA phone logs.

[gondramB]

I use 2-4 pseudofeds a day plus some bendryl - my only concern is the price going up from the additional regulation and labor required by the pharmacy.

[dirtboy]

But the latest rules, which also call for limits on purchases of up to 120 pills a day, are part of a federal effort to combat meth addiction.

The feds are busy mandating this, despite this story:

Mexican Meth Floods U.S. Shutdown Of U.S. Labs Fails To Stop Spread Of Deadly Drug

This deadly drug is now a growth industry for Mexico's deadly drug cartels. They're replacing small U.S. kitchen labs with Mexican super labs. The cartels are smuggling ephedrine from China, India and Europe and cooking up huge quantities of cheap meth — including an especially potent variety, Mexican Ice. Then the cartels smuggle it north to U.S. users.

"They're making quite a lot of money off of meth," Gonzalez said. "They are pretty much using the same routes that they've used in the past with cocaine and with marijuana."

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Memo to the feds - spend less time hassingly Americans, and more time CONTROLLING OUR BORDERS!

[ECM]

...and they record your home address--you have to do that, too, when you use your Visa?

[virginiaspook]

I find it unfortunate that the government can't come up with more effective ways to deal with the problem than to come up with some hare-brained idea like this. Fortunately, I never buy cold medications (I'm allergic to antihistamines and old Gramma's remedies work just as well) but I am still opposed to this idea. Privacy used to be valued in this country.

[Gay State Conservative]

And meanwhile,tons and tons of this stuff is coming in via Mexico.The traffickers are,no doubt,showing their IDs to the DEA agents that they encounter at the border.

[redhead]

Is this nationwide, or just in Florida?

[MarkeyD]

Plus, you have to tell them if you belly button is an "Inny" or an "Outy".

[Roux]

I was at Walmart and two men went in separate lines with a case of Equate brand Sudafed each. They had grabbed the cases before the stock boy could break the case and put the rest behind a counter.

I protested and the clerk called a manager who told them they could only buy one box at a time. They declined. I followed them out and calling police with their descriptions and car license number. I was told by the operator that they didn't have time to follow up on things like this.

They sure have time to check for seatbelts every morning.

[Incorrigible]

I can barely get the good Sudafed anymore and why???

Methamphetamine's Clutch Leaves More Gays Addicted, Infected

Gay men gain "confidence," lose control with meth use

GLMA grant to study gay men and meth

 

[Red Badger]

WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' IDs!...............

[E. Pluribus Unum]

On a related note, a couple of years ago my dental hygienist convinced me to start using PLAX on a daily basis because my teeth are a tartar magnet. I started brushing with two generic Walmart equivalents, one a PLAX clone and one a Listerine anti-plaque mouthwash clone.

Now when i go to the hygienist she literally has nothing to do because my teeth are so clean.

Even better, I used to get two or three sinus infections a year, but I have not been sick once since I started using the anti-plaque stuff.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

We've had this here for a year or so. Fortunately, I don't need to buy the stuff very often. But I ran into something odd one day when I was at the self-service checkout at a store and rang up some cold medicine not preferred by junkies. The computer said, "Approval needed" and I finally got a guy to do so and he asked me, "What do you have, alcohol or tobacco?" "Neither," I said. "Just plain old cold medicine."

[gondramB]

>>This deadly drug is now a growth industry for Mexico's deadly drug cartels. They're replacing small U.S. kitchen labs with Mexican super labs. The cartels are smuggling ephedrine from China, India and Europe and cooking up huge quantities of cheap meth — including an especially potent variety, Mexican Ice. Then the cartels smuggle it north to U.S. users.<<

Just doing the jobs Amererican red necks can't do.

[SMM48]

hmmmmmm! How will this affect the illegal population? Was Mexico consulted before this law was put into effect?

[PCBMan]

"I don't see it as a hassle," she added.

It's already a hassle without the logbook step. Now I have to stand in the pharmacy line for 10 minutes instead of getting it right off the shelf. Also, the store is now almost always out of my brand when I need it the most, leading to an hour of driving and searching other stores, who have let their stock run out too! Thank you so much, addicts and government, for making allergy season miserable.

[Brizick]

The War on Some Drugs is a far bigger threat to freedom than a few little NSA phone logs.

Amen!

Walgreen's has had sinus meds behind the pharmacy counter for a while. To purchase 'Wal-Phed', I have to give them my driver's license and then SIGN for the stuff. I told them last time that drug dealers don't go through this. They just steal the truck.

[ArrogantBustard]

Many states are into this silliness.