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.
Codeine works great to knock down a cough. If you take some the morning you get a job offer and have to take a drug test that day, you will fail...I know
Possibly some tyrant wannabes slipped it into an omnibus bill or some other "must-pass" legislation.
The supply of pseudoephedrine stems from two sources. The first involves products purchased from “rogue” U.S. chemical companies that sell excessive quantities to non-traditional outlets, such as liquor and convenience stores, who then distribute the pseudoephedrine in case quantity amounts to meth manufacturers. The second emerging source is pseudoephedrine smuggled from Canada. Traffickers purchase pseudoephedrine, often packaged in 1,000 count bottles from Canadian sources and then smuggle it across the U.S. border where it is diverted to manufacturers of meth.
actually.. as a law enforcement officer.. when I find large quantities of legal "cold medicine" in a house.. it is a HUGE red flag... sometimes we catch folks going to several stores to buy 3 packs of "cold medicine".. and it usually leads to what we suspect....
To think, my Mom would buy it over the counter. How did I ever survive childhood?
It worked wonders and it tasted great to boot. I just had a sick 6 year old over Christmas and would have killed for some of that, I'll have to check and see if it's still available anywhere. Between that, the Fletcher's Castoria and the St. Joseph's baby asprirn, it's a wonder I'm still alive.
How did any of us survive childhood? My mom used to give us orange juice mixed with rye whiskey for a cold. Worked, too.
My father was a pharmacist, and we had a bottle of that in our medicine cabinet. I can't remember the conditions for which he gave it to us, but I remember the taste. We purchased some Benadryl in Canada, and it tasted just like paragoric. Worked great, too.
--when small children try the coughing trick-(usually just after bedtime) to get attention, give them a small spoonful of Buckley's--I guarantee that will be the last time they do the cough trick--
No, you don't want to go to work or drive after taking it. It should be used only at night. Sorry you failed that drug test. It reminds me of Seinfeld when J Peterman thought Elaine was hooked on heroin because she always ate poppyseed muffins.
NyQuil was far more effective when it had 25% alcohol. Now it only is 10%.
I also used Thantis Lozenges for a sore throat. Also no longer available.
Can't get Diazinon for the yard as well. :-(
So when a mom with a toddler and six year old wants to buy a bottle of wine, they refuse?? What a bunch of nimrods.
What really annoys me about it is that the cited federal law, but failed to warn you about the risk of taking the two medicines at the same time. By doing so you are getting a double dose of pseudoephedrine.
Granted. But that doesn't change the meaning or intent of the Commerce Clause.
"I write separately only to express my view that the very notion of a ‘substantial effects’ test under the Commerce Clause is inconsistent with the original understanding of Congress’ powers and with this Court’s early Commerce Clause cases. By continuing to apply this rootless and malleable standard, however circumscribed, the Court has encouraged the Federal Government to persist in its view that the Commerce Clause has virtually no limits. Until this Court replaces its existing Commerce Clause jurisprudence with a standard more consistent with the original understanding, we will continue to see Congress appropriating state police powers under the guise of regulating commerce."
-Justice Clarence Thomas
LMAO.......I've been taking that stuff since I was little. I remembered it when my kids got to school age and wanted a day off. They would usually " be able" to make it to school after I'd go for the bottle.
Used to be an OTC drug.
I still got the job. I told them I'd fail and had the prescription with me. Been there 15 years, so I guess they believed me.
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