[BJClinton]

So...sudafed? Claritin-D? What the heck am I supposed to do during cedar season?

[mlbford2]

``What the heck am I supposed to do during cedar season?``

Meth??

[BJClinton]

Could y'all hit your Texas ping lists?

[MineralMan]

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!

[dfwright]

I'm glad the primary ingredient wasn't water.

[stopem]

To many drugs that were once prescriptions are now sold OTC.
Go back to making it a RX again.

[coloradan]

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.

[Freebird Forever]

Senate Bill 107 proposes to prohibit over-the-counter sales of single entity forms of pseudoephedrine

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.

[TexanByBirth]

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.

[TKDietz]

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?

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

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.

[MeekOneGOP]

Sen. Estes files bills to limit meth
(and pseudoephedrine)

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Texas ping list!. . .don't be shy.
No, you don't HAVE to be a Texan to get on this list!

[mystery-ak]

In Illinois now, we have to ask the pharmacist for sudafed, he keeps it behind the counter and you are limited to two packs at a time.....a real pain since I usually have to stand in line...

[freepatriot32]

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[freepatriot32]

here is the end result of laws like this that have already been passed someone shuold emailthis lstory toestes Clerk Convicted Of Selling Meth Ingredient (10 Bottles of Cold Medicine Could Bring 10 Years)

[F16Fighter]

Senate Bill 107 proposes to prohibit over-the-counter sales of single entity forms of pseudoephedrine.

No problemo...

Just triple those 4 cup-o-coffee days, AND make it expresso.

[goldstategop]

You can still get a legally allowed quantity. If you're contemplating bulk purchases, sorry amigo. The only people who need to buy thousands of cold or allergy pills are people bent on cooking meth.