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New cold medicine law goes into effect in NC [Register your Sudafed!]
News 14 Carolina ^ | 1/15/2006 1:38 PM | Staff

Posted on 01/16/2006 7:50:48 AM PST by TaxRelief

WAKE FOREST, N.C. --North Carolina started enforcing its new law intended to stop the spread of methamphetamine labs on Sunday.

Since 1999 the number of meth labs in the state has skyrocketed. Then the State Bureau of Investigation busted nine labs; in 2005 they discovered 328 of them.

As of Jan. 15 you must be at least 18, show photo ID and sign a log if you want to by over-the-counter cold medicines such as Sudafed and Tylenol Cold. Both medicines contain either pseudoephedrine or ephedrine, which are key ingredients used to make meth.

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Under the new law you can only buy two packages of cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine or ephedrine at a time, and only three packages in a 30-day period.


TOPICS: Government; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: 4thamendment; bang; bigbrother; coldmedicine; meth; privacyrights; substanceabuse; sudafed
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To: TaxRelief

I have thought that this might happen. The druggies have taken control of a good product, and have abused it to the point where law abiding people are being punished. We use sudafed regularly in our household, but because of the size of my family, I can easily see where I might be over my "quota" allowed. What am I supposed to do then?


21 posted on 01/16/2006 8:02:42 AM PST by Ohioan from Florida (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)
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To: MeanWestTexan
I say let the junkies die. I don't care.

It's all the crap they pull to feed their habit before it kills them that's annoying.

22 posted on 01/16/2006 8:02:45 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim ("We're a meat-based society.")
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To: southernerwithanattitude

" It reminds me of the moonshine days where you couldn't buy large amounts of sugar at one time."

Once prohibition was removed in the 30's, the moonshine business wasn't as profitable. That's why some counties are still "dry" counties, even though it seems very quaint and old-fashioned. The political infrastructure in those counties can make lots of money off of illegal moonshine so there's no way they would want to make liquor legal.


23 posted on 01/16/2006 8:02:48 AM PST by webstersII
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; Tax-chick
In Texas all of these meds are now behind the counter.

They haven't done it yet in Maryland or Virginia.........but I do know it is that way in Delaware now. It's driving some of my friends with allergies up the wall.

24 posted on 01/16/2006 8:03:28 AM PST by Gabz
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To: MeanWestTexan

My Mom lives on a rural road in the middle of nowhere. One night there was an explosion and a huge fire at a house - turned out to be a meth lab and no one had any idea what was going on there. Now we tell Mom she lives in the ghetto. ;^)


25 posted on 01/16/2006 8:03:58 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: jneesy
now if we can just stop the mexicans from bringing in from mexico

A few days before their arrest on federal cocaine trafficking charges, Exinia and Nuñez moved more than a quarter-ton of cocaine from Mexico through the Rio Grande Valley and on to New York City

[from this thread:
"Osama's people" crossing into US from Mexico?
]
26 posted on 01/16/2006 8:04:05 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: TaxRelief

How soon will it be easier to go to your local meth dealer to buy pseudoephedrine than going to the drug store? "No Mr. Twitchy, you don't understand. I don't want to buy the meth, I have a cold and just want one of your ingredients."


27 posted on 01/16/2006 8:04:13 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Hey Fat Ted: Alito is the judge, Mojito is what you're drinking. Try to remember the difference.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

All the more reason to make it dirt cheap, so they don't have to rob anyone on their way to the grave.

Hell, give it away free.


28 posted on 01/16/2006 8:04:23 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: phil1750

just go buy 50000 rounds of ammo or 500# of gunpowder or even better try to get 5 tons of chicken crap the gubmint will find you ASAP....guaranteed

items that are potentially harmful to society have to be controlled....period


29 posted on 01/16/2006 8:04:53 AM PST by jneesy (certified southern right wing hillbilly nutjob)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Good thinking, where was my head at?


30 posted on 01/16/2006 8:05:26 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim ("We're a meat-based society.")
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To: B Knotts
80+% of the meth and/or ingredients come up from Mexico, mostly through illegal aliens.

My sources in law enforcement (I am an medically-retired cop) tell me that it's more like 80+% is brewed in the county where it's getting sold. They seldom intercept shipments of meth in the same way they intercept pot, smack, or coke.

31 posted on 01/16/2006 8:06:45 AM PST by BeHoldAPaleHorse (MORE COWBELL! MORE COWBELL! (CLANK-CLANK-CLANK))
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To: jneesy
items that are potentially harmful to society have to be controlled....period

That's what Bloomberg says, too.

32 posted on 01/16/2006 8:06:58 AM PST by B Knotts
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Heck, both Midland and Odessa now have decon units to deal with cleaning up these places.

Considering it was in Midland where those terrorists (yes, they are confirmed members of a terrorist cell, you heard it here first) were caught buying cellphones at Wal-Mart, I suppose Decon units are nice to have, whatever the original rationale for buying them.


33 posted on 01/16/2006 8:07:19 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: Gabz
I make jelly

Oh. So that is what they are calling it now, huh? Uhm huh.
34 posted on 01/16/2006 8:07:28 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Tax-chick

Remember the article that recently came out claiming that cold remedies don't work to heal colds and are therefore useless and should not be used...This is the beginning of the ban on cold remedies. Activist science followed by nanny state control.


35 posted on 01/16/2006 8:07:39 AM PST by Galveston Grl (Getting angry and abandoning power to the Democrats is not a choice.)
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse

Yes, it is "brewed" here, but in the "superlabs," which are mainly run by illegal aliens, and their ingredients come up from Mexico, according to a number of stories I've read.


36 posted on 01/16/2006 8:08:06 AM PST by B Knotts
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To: Tax-chick

Just another case of where the little people have to suffer because our government can't control drug pushers! I'm sick of it!


37 posted on 01/16/2006 8:08:33 AM PST by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: TaxRelief

The government has stood the Constitution on it's head since the Roosevelt began literally dozens of unconstitutional government programs buy invoking the "interstate commerce clause" and pretending that it was written to basically void the rest of the Constitution by giving Congress the power to do literally ANYTHING that is even remotely linked to interstate commerce.


38 posted on 01/16/2006 8:09:00 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Gabz

So you SUPPLY other people's sugar habits, do you?

You know you're going to get sued by someone who got fat and, one time, ate one cracker with some jelly on it.


39 posted on 01/16/2006 8:09:18 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: MeanWestTexan

Geez, I hadn't heard about Midland/Odessa. Perhaps they should deputize some of the locals and let 'em round them up.....


40 posted on 01/16/2006 8:09:49 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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