New Sudafed Laws.
As of 9/30/06 - a new sudafed law took into effect.
Every single product containing pseudoephedrine (PSE) has to be either in a locked cabinet or behind the counter. Also all sales of PSE containing products need to be logged in a book with a drivers license number, address, reason for taking it (wtf?) and signature. This is to "Curb the production of Methamphetamine". The daily limit is 3.6 grams of sudafed and the monthly limit is 9 grams of sudafed.
This is so fucking outrageous and stupid it makes my head spin. -All- PSE containing products. That means infant cough/cold drops need to be locked up. Dimatapp needs to be locked up. Everything! Retarded! Is some crackhead going to cook 60 gallons of pediacare drops to make meth? Fuck no! I can see the stock bottles of 100 PSE 60mg, but childrens cold preps?
Who are they fooling anyways? Do they think that this is magically going to stop the production of meth? Dont they realize that the shit is being trucked in by the tons from Mexico? That its perfectly possible for a person to drive across the boarder, pick up like eleventybillion pounds of this shit, and just truck right on back in?
But no, just like guns and other things that are cool, the law abiding citizens have to pay for all the fuckups doing. I predict that this will have no effect on the production of meth. Im even willing to put money on it.
What gets me, is that they have to sign a log book, and their daily limit is 3.6 grams. What stops them from just going across the street to Walgreens and picking up another 3.6 grams; then to Longs, 3.6 grams; Rite Aid? Yup! 3.6 grams! Who cares if they sign the log book. The DEA agent is going to look at it and say "Yup, this dude we caught went to 10 different pharmacies in the same day and bought sudafed". No fucking shit asshole! Will the pharmacies get in trouble? No, because we complied with the 3.6 grams/day law. So really, whats the point of this stupid shit anyways? Much like cocaine, C2 narcotics, and the "War on Drugs" bullshit, this whole program looks good on paper but will cost us more money and time than building a huge moat (with sharks) between us and Mexico.
People need to start using some common sense and stop selling sudafed to the fucking tweaker at 3am rather than punish the rest of us. I know what will curb the production of meth, public executions for the people who make it.
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They've been doing this in Oregon for at least a year. It's fucking ridiculous. Makes me want to get a bunch of fake IDs just to buy a shit-load of sudafed and hoard it.
We have had this rule in the state I work in for about a year and a half. I had to tell a 17 year old mother that she couldn't buy a decongestant for her baby because she wasn't old enough. For a bottle with less than 1 24 hour Sudafed tablet. There has been no decrease in meth sales, just in the "mom and pop" labs. The even sadder thing to me is that there is an additve that they can add to the farmers nitrogen that makes in impossible to convert and they won't make that manditory but they will allow the above situation to happen.
I don't know about how it is where you live, but here in Meth capitol, USA AKA Missouri, it's entered electronically now by driver's license number and I'm not entirely sure the database is connected but I think if it isn't it will be soon.
All this has done is make me want to try crystal meth so that I can clear my freakin sinuses.
I'm from Oregon where Pseudofed went schedule 4 Rx last summer; before that we had the hand-written log-book that did lead to catching some local meth makers, but it probably wasn't worth the effort since the logbooks weren't linked.
I thought the reason for the Rx/behind the counter rules were to decrease the meth supply (which clearly would be ineffective due to international production), but after talking to the head of the state Meth task-force, he made it clear that they were trying to stop the local meth production, not overall supply. The local toxic labs ruin houses/buildings and cost local governments tens-hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean up, seriously draining law-enforcement budgets.
December 2006 (a few months after it went Rx only) was the FIRST month in years when Oregon had NO home meth labs found. Yes these laws work at stopping local production, and yes for most people the PE substitute will work fine; yeah it's a bitch to have to get an Rx for Pseudofed, but it's probably worth the hassel/higher price to stop local methlabs.
With a horrible cold I went to the store- no three stores and there is not a single place in this god forsaken town that houses Penn State University that has a pharmacy open past 9pm. Fuck this. Welcome to the communist state of America.
Even the theory behind this act is flawed, as with many, many of our laws nowdays. The only thing this law does is to keep the upstanding, law-abiding people from getting the medicines they need. Meanwhile, the meth labs are still operating full scale, and meth has become the #1 drug in the USA. I am a teacher, but was made to feel like a 1st class felon on a drug seeking binge when I dutifully went to the pharmacist to purchase the sudafed I need to take with my allergy meds and was told that they wouldn't sell it to me because I was over the limit. I had 2 boxes of sudafed. Yes, I buy it regularly, 2 boxes a month of 12 hour sudafed, but that is because my doctor told me that I would have no problem buying it since I'm healthy, and have all my teeth, therefore didn't need a prescription. I walked away from the line that had formed behind me to witness the criminal trying to buy drugs legally over the counter, feeling like shit. Meanwhile, somewhere in this city someone is purchasing all the sudafed they need to make a new batch of meth because they've found a way to circumvent this ridicules law.
This whole thing makes me sick. I have a family of four. Both of my kids suffer from seasonal allergies and asthma. Sudafed is the only thing we have found that dries up the drainage. Today I go to the pharmacy and I patiently wait. A police officer walks by. Then another comes in 5 minutes after. I see the tech hand them my drivers license. 10 minutes go by and I am feeling nervous. What the hell. The stupid bitch didnt do her math right. Not only did they waste my time and the cities time I was humiliated in front of other customers. There aught to be some sort of law to protect our rights also.