Comments | darkrosetiger: When sinus meds are criminalized, only criminals will be able to breathe.

darkrosetiger

When sinus meds are criminalized, only criminals will be able to breathe.

Mar 10, 2006 17:21

Every so often, we run out of Sudafed. Before this year, this wasn't a big deal: you go to RiteAid, or Long's, or Safeway and pick up some more. As of 1 January 2006, though, California state law mandates that any OTC medications containing psuedoephedrine be kept being the pharmacy counter, so that people can't buy up tons of it to use making ( Read more... )

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padawanhilary March 11 2006, 01:25:24 UTC

Texas has been doing that for a couple of years now, but I think we're a bigger meth state. *hugs* it all blows, though. Here, you have to have ID to purchase it. There is no age limit. I'll be carded for Sudafed purchases till time ends.

oystergal March 11 2006, 02:00:52 UTC

It's a Federal law, now.

gal_montag March 11 2006, 02:00:59 UTC

Colorado has the same law, mostly, I think, to combat theft of the drugs since there's no way to really keep track of who's buying them. (although this would make it easier if they came up with a way to do that.) We're a pretty big meth state, and we've banned ephedrine outright.

cedarlibrarian March 11 2006, 02:48:12 UTC

This is so reminiscent of what they did my freshman year in high school. People were smoking in the bathrooms, so they locked the bathrooms during classes. Of course, they forgot that we do OTHER THINGS in the bathroom, too.

dragonkal March 11 2006, 03:20:33 UTC

Oh, man. I don't have words for how much I agree with you. Oregon just started the same thing, and in rural Oregon it's even worse -- very few pharmacies are open after regular business hours, so it's very hard to find the time to stand in line for the 25 minutes at all, unless I'm sick enough to really need it, in which case I don't feel like standing in line 25 minutes.

I'm taking a mini-vacation in 2 weeks and need Sudafed for it -- I have chronic ear infections and sinus infections -- and I've really had to ponder when the hell I'm going to manage getting it.

Also, I question the usefulness of this process anyway. I mean, I work where meth addicts receive therapy...I've never seen anything on paperwork remotely like "well, they enacted that new law, so I stopped manufacturing..."

darkrosetiger March 11 2006, 03:27:32 UTC

I've never seen anything on paperwork remotely like "well, they enacted that new law, so I stopped manufacturing..."

I was wondering about that--I mean, wouldn't they just get it somewhere else? I'm sure you can order the stuff online.

dragonkal March 11 2006, 03:40:07 UTC

Exactly. Back when I worked at Wal-Mart, when we had a rudimentary version of this where you could only buy 3 packs at a time, I'd tell people that and they'd put 3 packs on the conveyor belt, a divider, and 3 more packs. And so long as it was 2 discrete purchases, it was fine.

There's no state/national database for our carding law now, so yes, in Oregon at least, you could totally bounce from store to store. And, um, a couple hours' commute to get your Sudafed won't stop a meth manufacturer. It's not like they do this cuz they're bored.

*rants with you, omg*