Years ago, if you were an adult, and presented ID, you could buy codeine cough syrup if you had a chest cold. You did have to sign for it. One day, I went to my former pharmacy and asked to buy some. I was refused. It wasn’t a law, just a new store policy. I wigged out! I was sick and just wanted to get the stuff and go back to bed. I didn’t need to spend a bunch for an office visit for a cold! I went to my doc’s. He said, “Your usual Winter chest cold?” He wrote me a script with no charge for a visit. Afterall, it was just a cold. I went back to the pharmacy, waved the script in the owner/pharmacist’s face. Told him what I thought of him and his new policy, and informed him he’d get no more business from me. He was pi$$ed! I laughed my way out! Rant off!
Yup! Pharmacists have become little busybodies - missing the drug addicts who blow them away with Uzis and targeting middle-class people with colds. But, isn’t that Obama’s America?