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19 April 2007

this will never stop pissing me off →[More:]

And "this" is having to pay eleven bucks per box plus six bucks shipping and provide a copy of my driver's license for something that last spring I could buy at the local gas station for five bucks. All because of stupid useless laws by stupid useless politicians that would make better plant food, paperweights or doorstops than they do leaders.

I couldn't find what I wanted locally and if I did, I would have to put up with the asshats working in the Wal-Mart prescription center who hate their jobs, hate their customers and don't try to hide it.

This is a step in the right direction if the government wants me to end up a crazy person living in a shack with hundreds of guns and dozens of cats plotting to overthrow them with my well-armed cat army in ten years. Or something.

You are fucking with my allergy meds, government. Stop doing that. I hope every single jackass that supported these restrictions becomes allergic to their very skin and I hope they never curb the "meth epidemic" and that maybe eventually people will start to realize how completely useless this drug war bullshit really is.

post by: weretable and the undead chairs at: 12:47 | 12 comments

cat army

posted by auntbunny 19 April | 13:05

Cat Army

posted by tr33hggr 19 April | 13:33

Weretable, I know you are frustrated-but I have known meth addicts. This stuff ain't pot.

There't tons and tons of stuff to get upset with the gubmint about. But I have to agree with them on thissun.

posted by bunnyfire 19 April | 13:36

IT WILL NOT STOP IT. and i hope it doesn't even slow it down.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 19 April | 13:49

I hope they never curb the "meth epidemic" ...

That is pretty much a certainty. Here in Vegas since the restrictions, the meth flowing through the city into the midwest is cheaper, higher quality and coming across the border from Mexico. What is unclear is just how much is manufactured in Mexico. A correlation with the increased activity of Korean gangs on both sides of the border, maybe?

The meth trade is so heavy now that ordinary people, even those who do not speak spanish and who have nothing to do with its trade, are aware of its market stability. Neither the pot and acid trade in the 70s nor the coke trade in the 80s can compare to this.

I suspect that many new "illegal" meth users are not looking for the high but using it for the same purpose that they previously used pseudoephedrine, as a decongestant.

Try to get the gubmint to admit to THAT!

posted by mischief 19 April | 13:52

cat army

(music will start right away, be warned)

Also, am glad I can at least get my allergy meds with a signature, my ID, a cheekscraping, rectal probe and a promise of my firstborn at the perscription counter.

posted by kellydamnit 19 April | 14:49

I feel the same way. Restricting my sudafed -- and ruining the effectiveness of Nyquil completely -- does not make a dent in the meth problem. It is the same window dressing as making people take off their shoes at the xray machine at the airport solves the terrorism problem [or the 100ml liquids in a ziplock back=OK 120ml liquids will cause planes to fall out of the sky].

The meth business is doing better now than before this stupid law. Like any other business, the big operations stepped in when it became harder for the small mom and pop meth labs made of people breaking open blister packs of sudafed.

The only ray of light that I can see on the whole thing is it shows that big pharma does not have congress in their pocket completely. Or maybe this was the bone they threw for the medicaid prescription programs. After all, they are still making a fortune on the worthless product sold in front of the counter, and now they can charge even more the behind the counter stuff.

Idiocracy.

posted by birdherder 19 April | 15:35

I'm still able to buy real sudafed, but I have to go to the pharmacy and sign a form.

On balance, the hassle for people who need a very effective med, against the limited effectiveness for restricting meth puts me on your side.

Perhaps we could just legalize pot, and put our drug-fighting money into fighting meth, which seems to truly destroy lives.

posted by theora55 19 April | 15:57

Instead of fighting meth, how about funding research into creating a safe recreational drug? Nah, that would make TOO much sense.

posted by mischief 19 April | 19:29

Similar things in Australia too. I have a scruffy looking friend, who doesn't do drugs other than beer and holds a respectable job, who has been refused pseudoephedrine based cold and flu tablets at the local pharmacy.

It also makes it hard - I used to walk into a pharmacy and ask for cold tablets, `anything with pseudoephedrine, please'. Now I feel weird doing that.

posted by tomble 19 April | 22:59

Cool kelly! You totally beat my sad submission (and I used to listen to Laibach all the time)!

posted by tr33hggr 20 April | 07:21

Happy 4/20.

posted by danostuporstar 20 April | 11:28

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