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To: tomakaze
And the other day, when the entire family had the flu, my wife tried to buy a bottle of NyQuil, a bottle of Day-Quil, a bottle of children's decongestant, and a small box of 24 decongestant pills at WalMart. The clerk told her that she could not do that. So, she had to make two separate purchases. Some sort of regulation on PseudoEphedrine limited how many products containing it she could buy per transaction. Fact is, she probably broke some other law by breaking up the transactions.
46 posted on 12/31/2003 7:22:11 AM PST by Spiff (Have you committed a random act of thoughtcrime today?)
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To: Spiff
" Some sort of regulation on PseudoEphedrine limited how many products containing it she could buy per transaction. "

And now that they banned ephedra yesterday, you won't be able to buy that instead for a stuffy nose either.

It's all part of the nanny state trying to take care of us.
69 posted on 12/31/2003 7:39:13 AM PST by webstersII
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To: Spiff
I found this entire thread most interesting but your post about the flu meds blew my mind.

The odd thing is that we could buy as much booze as we want and no one would care.

Insanity!!!!
139 posted on 12/31/2003 3:05:33 PM PST by Mears
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To: Spiff
Some sort of regulation on PseudoEphedrine limited how many products containing it she could buy per transaction.

That's because pseudoephedrine is a convenient starting material for basement lab synthesis of methamphetamine.

140 posted on 12/31/2003 3:11:20 PM PST by the bottle let me down (Still tilting at windmills)
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To: Spiff
And the other day, when the entire family had the flu, my wife tried to buy a bottle of NyQuil, a bottle of Day-Quil, a bottle of children's decongestant, and a small box of 24 decongestant pills at WalMart. The clerk told her that she could not do that. So, she had to make two separate purchases. Some sort of regulation on PseudoEphedrine limited how many products containing it she could buy per transaction. Fact is, she probably broke some other law by breaking up the transactions.

Big Brother has Officially & Permanently moved in. Geez!!

143 posted on 12/31/2003 6:32:31 PM PST by madison10
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