Last time I drove through Kentucky there was a poster hanging at every rest stop and wayside.
“If you see these five things in your neighbor’s trash, he is running a meth lab. Call 1-800-XXX-XXXX and report it.”
For those who believe drugs are a victimless crime, I refer them to meth.
A drug that really is as bad as the government says “drugs” are. Destroys sellers, users, families, neighborhoods and communities.
Which is not to say that our policies for opposing its use are the best they could be.
So make it a prescription drug and buy off the pseudoephedrine manufacturers with cash and tax breaks. It would be cheaper in the long run and is in keeping with our government’s predilection to corruption and special deals.
They took phenylpropanolamine completely off the market so that clanlabs couldn’t make U4EA (4-methylaminorex), and most people these days have never even heard of U4EA or 4-methylaminorex. Or miss phenylpropanolamine as a prescription or OTC drug.
Making pseudophedrine perscription will not slow it down. Only make it more expensive for those that need it. Oxycodone has always been prescription and those folks in Kentucky have been consuming it like coffee. It does’nt even slow it down.
Who makes all those little zip-loc baggies and those little plastic tubes with different color stoppers?
What? Mother Jones has been all for legalization of marijuana, but they are upset that drug companies want to keep psuedoephedrine controlled with ID behind the counter?
Hypocrites.
In Texas, it is already behind the counter and you cannot purchase more than one package of 24 or so per month. Must show your driver’s license and pharmacy staff write your purchase down in a log they keep. Don’t see how going prescription could be anymore effective than that.
Sucks too as Sudafed is the only allergy medicine that works for me. On bad months, I’ve had to tap into my sister’s monthly allotment.