Meth laws and the sniffles
Seen at Pete’s, seems the Arizona meth law that required pharmacies to get ID and log purchasers got a hit. The police noticed one name that kept showing up and they went to bust this meth operation. But:
Instead, they found a big family that had been racked by the flu.
The members of this family weren’t stocking up on pseudoephedrine. They were buying cold medicine.
“The way the log reads, the amount purchased can be deceiving,” Sherrard says. “All we see is that the mother’s name appeared four or five times — what it doesn’t tell you is that she’s buying Children’s Tylenol.”
(And if mom had wanted to make meth, five boxes of Children’s Tylenol was hardly going to do the trick.)
Needless to say, Sherrard says dryly, “we closed that case.”
The case should have never been opened.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:09 am
Jeezus peezus, they were recording Children’s Tylenol purchases? What could possibly have been served by that? Is there something in CT that I should have known about when I was in college?
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:20 am
The question is, did they storm in there with black rifles and ski masks?
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:27 am
I honestly can’t tell who I hate more: the IDIOTIC bureaucrats whose very existense depends on the MORONIC “War” on Drugs, or the fucknozzle druggies cooking meth in their basements.
And hate them I do, with a violent, blinding passion. They made NyQuil reformulate without pseudophedrine. For that only the most painful torture should be employed…
April 3rd, 2006 at 1:49 pm
“The question is, did they storm in there with black rifles and ski masks?”
The family apparently didn’t have any pet cats….
April 3rd, 2006 at 1:50 pm
And by the way, the last time I looked Children’s Tylenol doesn’t contain any pseudoephedrine. There’s no way you can make meth out of acetaminophen.
What a stupid law.
April 3rd, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Cap’n Holly:
The Children’s Cold & Cough formulas do.
April 3rd, 2006 at 2:52 pm
But yes, it’s a remarkably stupid law. Apparently, the government’s habit of pursuing policies that put mom & pop out of business and favor large-scale operations isn’t just limited to legal activities. (I mean, do you really think this is going to put any large-scale meth labs out of business?)
April 3rd, 2006 at 4:54 pm
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