Posted on 01/10/2005 1:53:46 PM PST by BJClinton
``What the heck am I supposed to do during cedar season?``
Meth??
Could y'all hit your Texas ping lists?
This is stupid! I take sudafed sometimes, and I don't want it adulterated with other medications.
Simpler would be to restrict sales of sudafed to a limited quantity or put it behind the counter. At the pharmacy in the supermarket I shop at, you have to go to the pharmacy counter and ask for it. If you buy a single package, you can't make much meth.
It's just another case of prohibiting something because it CAN be abused. That's just wrong!
I'm glad the primary ingredient wasn't water.
roflmao
To many drugs that were once prescriptions are now sold OTC.
Go back to making it a RX again.
Didn't you read the article? The inconvenience you will suffer is just a small price to pay to eradicate the meth epidemic. Which, as we know from other spectacular successes in the War On (some) Drugs, it will accomplish. In other words, your suffering will not come for nothing. With this legislation, the War On Meth is all but won. Sorry about your own health, though.
Yeah, that stops abuse ... like oxycontin and percoset.
I'm all for stringing up meth users / cookers / dealers, but this smells like Estes is in the back pocket of some pharmaceutical company who stands to profit from prescription pseudoephedrine.
When the stupid jerks in Austin fix school financing and lower property taxes in this state, then they can play silly legislative games like this!
Until then they should just shut up and do the job they were elected to do.
You can't ban everything that can be abused. Will you ban spraypaint and solvents simply because low-lifes abuse these to get doped up too?
Good lord Freebird.. I hope you are not insinuating that *gasp* there is any sort of profit motive for drug laws. Or that one of our dear elected officials has anything other than our best interests at heart.
/sarcasm
Are they talking about making it a prescription only drug or making it to where it can only be sold at pharmacies if you sign for it like in Oklahoma?
Too much liberty in this country. Mussolini made the trains run on time.
*Whew* Thanks for putting it in perspective. Is there a WosD ping list?
To many drugs that were once prescriptions are now sold OTC. Go back to making it a RX again.
If they’re not too busy determining what medicines I can take when I’m ill, I hope the government will start determining what foods I may eat when I’m hungry.
Here in CA, Target wouldn't sell me more than 2 off the shelf items of a cold & flu remedy variety, claiming their store policy limites pseudoephedrine purchases to 2 items per customer. It didn't even matter if the stuff had pseudoephedrine in it, if it had the words Cold or Flu on the box, too bad. It wouldn't have been a problem if my entire family was sick and the wife and kids were going on travel and needed the medicines. Crazy world.
Thank you government!
Poor diet drives up taxpayer-funded health costs. Doubleplusungood.
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