No it should not have. I hope you have been keeping documentation of the medical harm, these laws have caused your wife. You seriously need to think about filing a law suit against the government for endanging in your wilfe health and life.

This law is not merely inconveniancing law abiding American citizens it is compramising their freedom to travel from state to state and out of the nation and most importantly it is actually endangering people health and life.

None of which is acceptable for a nation, which claims to be the leader of the free world.

I do not trust the goverment to fix the healthcare crisis, because they cannot even handle medicne for the common cold with out restricting freedoms and additionally, endangering people’s health and life. If they can’t handle a head cold, how can I trust them with a triple by pass?

The solution is simpple. Simply stock up on your needed sudafedrine supplies before you leave your home state. Oh wait, if you have to take a daily does and are already at the legal, limit you cannot stock up, so you will have to wait and buy it at your point of desination out of state, but oh wait, it is an out of state license, so you can’t. Does anyone else feel like they have fallen down the rabbit hole?

Now, I simply make sure to buy my allowed dosage every time I go grocery shopping to get ahead of my next crisis. With both my wife and son needing PE on occasion, it’s not easy to keep it in stock. Asinine law.

I too am on doctor’s orders and if I need to stock up to travel or try to have extra in the house in case I get sick and can’t get to the store, I am in trouble. I cannot put together a complete evacution kit as suggested by the Redcross and the government itself and stocking up to travel on extended trips especially to the wilderness or to third world nations is impossible, especially if the trip in mid month. I have to plan months in advance and skip doses and suffer the effects of breathing at lower capacity due to more post nasal drip building up, just to get the timing and dosages correct for my vacation. Since, when are we not free to come and go as we please in this nation?

“I’m going to give tme about a decade to perfect these laws before it becomes functionally impossible to buy pseudoephedrine. We’ll end up buying cheap and readily available components like crystal meth and build clandestine labs to transform them into cold medicine.”

Bravo, Fr. Spike, you took the thought right out of my head!

(phenylephrine is useful, just not as a decongestant)

Because they want a single formulation it’s annoyingly hard to find a pseudoephedrine-containing decongestant in tablet form. It’s allways been over-the-counter (i.e. ask for it) rather than on the shop floor, which is afaik more than acceptable.

You can get the nasal sprays at least, but if you’re bad then there’s the issue of rebound congestion after a few days…

Once again, government has decided to punish the entire class because a couple of students misbehaved. Will the tyranny of a fourth-grade teacher never end? :)

I did buy some a few months back, and I half considered requesting a hundred boxes, just to see what would happen, but I chickened out. I did have to give them my name and so forth, so I guess if I wasn’t on a list before from activism, I probably am now from buying one box of Sudafed in a year’s time.

Honestly. They think we’re a nation of damned children.

So long as the majority of people continue to behave like children (and spoiled ones, at that), there will always be politicians willing to play the role of nanny.

I’m going to give tme about a decade to perfect these laws before it becomes functionally impossible to buy pseudoephedrine. We’ll end up buying cheap and readily available components like crystal meth and build clandestine labs to transform them into cold medicine.

sorry.

Politicos and authorities were so busy patting themselves on the back over their ingenious solution to the meth problem- they missed the obvious.

Limiting access to ingredients to cook meth did indeed decrease meth production and availability.

It did NOT decrease or cure addiction.

Did they really think users would just quit using because meth was harder to find? Hello?!!!! Addicts don’t quit – they just switch to a new/more easily attainable drug.

In a city which had thus far remained all but untouched by heroin – all I could think was “if you dumb asses thought meth was bad…..you’re going to have a rude awakening….”

It was inevitable. Took longer than I expected, but last week, local news reported 2 arrests for – you guessed it – heroin.

Every totalitarian regime begins with small chips. We are on the way to our very own.

Anyway, good thing that helping out Mexican meth cartels is more important than health and happiness of our citizens though!

I am sick and tired of the citizenry being treated like criminals when we have done nothing wrong. Something, somewhere, somehow and at some fucking time (hopefully not too far in the future) has got to give. We are living in a police state and the sad thing is most of us do not even realize it because they chipped away at us, little by little. What will happen when and if people finally awaken to where we are? Where will we be? Asking for permission from our doctor’s to indulge a little and go ahead and buy that Whopper? How much will the permit be? Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

I weep for what this country could be and probably never will without massive bloodshed.