Posted on 12/30/2004 12:32:37 PM PST by Earl B.
Okay, so I call in sick yesterday because I woke up feeling awful. Stuffy/runny nose. Muscle aches, fever, chills, headache. I took a couple of Advil, but still don't feel well enough to drive an hour to the office.
Later, in the afternoon, I feel well enough to go to the drugstore to get some cold medicine. Pop into Rite-Aid and grab a box of Drixoral (which works very well for my congestion/sinus issues). I also grab a couple of boxes of Triaminic Soft-Chews, because my son is very congested too and they work well for him.
When I get to the register, the computer flags my purchase somehow, and the cashier informs me that I can't buy all three items. Huh? It really wasn't registering with me. In my weakened state, I thought that I didn't have enough cash, or my card was being rejected. But I hadn't tendered any cash or attempted to use my card, so how could the cashier know what I could afford? I asked for a clarification.
The cashier told me that I could by any two of the items I wanted, but not all three. Why? Federal Law. Federal Law dictates how mcuh cold medicine I can buy for me and my family? I ask to speak to a manager.
Manager confirms - they can't sell me all three items. Apparently the active ingredient in my chosen medicines (Pseudoephedrine HCL) can be used to manufacture methamphetamine or some such. So Federal law limits how much I can buy.
Flabbergasted and defeated, I buy the Drixoral and ONE box of Triaminic. I took my purchases to my car, then walked into the grocery store next to Rite-Aid and bought another Triaminic.
Another glorious battle in the nation's War on Drugs.
"I'm going to keep sneezing on you until you let me buy this!"
Don't change the rules.
that is insane.
I just bought a bottle of wine with my toddler and infant in tow.......shhhh don't tell anyone.
In the meantime, your kids can probably buy all sorts of illicit drugs at their schoolyard without a prescription!
I believe there is also an age limit on buying cold medicine (like 16 or 18) as well.<<
I can see that one. Ny-Quill - love that stuff so much that I look forward to getting colds, LOL!
We have a bad meth problem around here, so it really hasn't slowed the cookers down for a second.
I read this webpage for cold medicine druggies and how to do it - mostly teens - and they would drink bottles of the stuff - all of them had bad trips!
Heh...I didn't say I didn't buy booze. But that time I just had a six pack of...grrr...it was one of those deals with cola and a little rum that you can get next to the beer in any grocery. I'd never tried it, and it was on sale. I've since learned that I was better off not wasting my money, so maybe I should be grateful for the Nazis...
But it wasn't even enough for two people to get tipsy on, really!
The law is intended to make it inconvienent to go into one store and purchase large quantities of psedoephendrine... its not because its the cold medicine... that drug is used in the process of manufacturing METH (ILLEGAL drug)
Buckley's Mixture....................made in Canada. W.K Buckley Limited.
I don't know if your area carries it, but this stuff really works. My son, his wife and daughter came up from Missouri for a visit..........ALL sick. Went on a Buckley's run and plied them with it. My son was shocked.........his sinus's cleared in minutes.
Heh...I've often wondered since then what the cut-off would be. If he had been just fifteen, would I have gotten away with it? What if I were over thirty? Forty?
Maybe you could find a meth dealer and ask if you can just buy the unprocessed cold medicine?
I don't know if they still make it but when I was growing up you could by it at pharmacies. My mom used to give it to us in a little plastic cup over crushed iced to sip on when we were nauseous.
Haaaaaahahahaha...!
(LOL is an understatment)
NyQuil.........lol.......the place I worked was open all night. One night one of our guys saw a guy stealing something, shoving it down his pants. We called the police as he left and they caught him a block away with 18 bottles in his trousers. Seems the kids mix it with something, I forget what now, to come down off a coke high.
Apparently you buying more than two boxes of cold medicine at a time substantially effects commerce among the several states.
well stated
That's the stuff. Perhaps it's because most pharmacies had soda fountains back then that I relate the two. Served over ice, it was a great thing for a young kid to help with a stomach virus. My Mom probably would be thrown if jail for the way she treated me back then!!!
That is crazy. Who do they think they are, forcing their morals on ... well ... on themselves.
That's BS. We should be allowed to force these counties to serve liquor. To force our amorality on them!
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