Comment 2: Today Sudafed; tomorrow baking soda? What is the legal precedent for requiring signatures for purchase of any product?
Comment 3: What is the legal precedent for limiting the quantity you can buy of ANY product? Will ammo be limited next? Cigarettes?
Jeez. We sometimes have 6 or 7 people in our family using Sudafed or equivalent allergy products. Are we going to have to go out of state? Does this affect children's liquids, or only tablets?
Thank goodness peyote grows wild around here. :)
Bought a prescription lately?
"What is the legal precedent for limiting the quantity you can buy of ANY product? Will ammo be limited next? Cigarettes?"
These types of restrictions are GOOD for you. So, liberals are 100% behind them. See, we've got to protect people from themselves. The nanny state. Ban cigarettes, guns, and anything else that can hurt you!
Oh, but listen in to conversations that Osama's friends have? Oh, now that's BAD. That's infringing on rights!
Good Lord, how can those people get it so backwards. If you're going to buy something you can hurt yourself with, and you do... well, maybe that part of the gene pool needed some chlorination.
They have to get a handle on this meth stuff! Its the same way here in Georgia, they are busting labs all over the place. It reminds me of the moonshine days where you couldn't buy large amounts of sugar at one time.
Most places just limit what you can buy. Buying a bottle of NyQuil is no problem. Buying it by the case is where you run into problems. Even so, I'm not so sure that it solves the problem. I'm betting that there are a lot of grocery store and convenience store owners, and wholesalers, that make a lot of money selling to meth dealers out the back door. Is the distributor going to know if it's going on? Business is good, a lot of people have colds and the flu, move along. Through the summer, it's allergy season. In the fall, a lot of people are allergic to mold.
These laws are getting ridiculous.
In Oklahoma, you can only buy those at a pharmacy/drug store.
Arkansas Walmart only sells them at the pharmacy window. The Superstore is 24/7. The pharmacy isn't.
The idiots making these laws are probably some of the same idiots who are trying to make vitamins and herbals available only by prescription.
With the national increase in peoples' weight, soon they will be regulating the number of t-spoons of sugar one can buy on any single trip to the grocery store.
My wife really objects to this.... I have allergies and i take pseudofed and Benedryl.
But to me it seems like a better choice than making them prescription only which is the other thing you do when a drug is abusable..
80+% of the meth and/or ingredients come up from Mexico, mostly through illegal aliens.
Yet, virtually every state is focusing on over-the-counter cold medicines. Oh, and also iodine sold at feed stores.
Odd, no?
How 'bout those illegal aliens?
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?
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."
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.
There is an age below which it is reasonable to expect that kids should not be self-medicating. You can argue whether that age is 6 or 18 or something in-between. But the sad fact is that massive amounts of Corecidan (sp?) is a cheap, legally obtainable, and dangerous high for some teens. I don't think teens can buy spray paints in some states, and I know the old Testors plastic cement was once sold only to adults for the same reason.
To be honest, I have no idea what the "signature" part of the law is about unless it is an attempt to keep the merchants honest.
FWIW, I actually prefer chlorpheniramine maleate (chlor-trimeton) to the stuff with pseudoephedrine.
I also find it helps for migraine type headaches caused by the vagus nerve going funky-like when you wear headphones, or a visor, and the next thing you know you have sharp shooting pains radiating from behind the ear or jaw across the top of your head.
Now when they start regulating chlorpheniramine, then, I'll be stockpiling the stuff!
I believe the chemicals required for meth production come across our borders daily, not to mention meth itself.
Am I the only one who has noticed the ridiculous number of not just typos, but obvious grammatical errors (such as the above) in major news stories in recent years?
Obviously we aren't providing enough funds for art and music classes in public schools. /sarcasm.
Under the Dems we get nannyism and under the Pubbies we get paternalistic authoritarianism. What's the difference?
I'm only surprised that they're not making me get a doctor's appointment, wasting my money and my time and the doctor's, just to get a prescription for what's an otc drug for a few sniffles.