“prisoner of the drug war”
It’s getting quite tyrannical. Woman, who cares for the elderly and disabled, goes to Alabama to buy Sudafed, since she needs a prescription in Mississippi. While there, she had other family members each buy a box. May as well get a supply of medicine to keep your family healthy. Now, she’s accused attempting to make meth. And another from the same story, where a grandmother bought a box of Zyrtec and a box of Mucinex in less than a week. She was handcuffed and arrested.
It’s pathetic.
From the Mississippi woman’s husband:
When common household medications and disinfectants are now illegal to possess, I believe we have gone overboard with the drug laws.
End the drug war and release the POWs.
Update: Glenn on nanny state cold medicine regulators:
I think these people should be exposed to toddler snot, then locked in a freezing basement with a bag of ragweed pollen tied over their head until they develop a proper appreciation for the consequences of their policies.
Heh.
February 7th, 2012 at 10:30 am
I think that Law Enforcement has gone overboard regulating non-regulated drugs because they can be used to make other drugs…but I also think this lady is full of bullsh!t. Suggesting that other people buy Sudofed products because they don’t have insurance doesn’t make sense. It’s a weird excuse, and sounds like a weird excuse that makes sense in drugspeak because it’s intentionally specific. There is also the convenience of all these other people just randomly suggesting that she cross state lines to purchase Sudafed products, or use Sudafed products for scuba diving. Again, it’s a bizarre justification. On top of that there is a bag of crack in the car! Whether her son took the hit for it or not…there is f*cking crack cocaine in your car!!! And then she points out how she helps the elderly and disabled with personal car. As what…a rn? That’s a bizarre statement to make for someone to follow through with where they work or in what capacity.
I still think that the ephedrine laws have gotten ridiculous, but I don’t think this grandmother who helps the sick and elederly is lily clean. It seems like there is something else going on here.
February 7th, 2012 at 10:34 am
I waited like a criminal while the pharmacist logged in my personal info so that I could relieve my congested head. All the while (the long while) I was waiting I was staring down the beer aisle where people came and went freely, buying six-packs and cases of yellow swill with the full expectation that at least one of those folks was going to drive their car while more-than-legally intoxicated. Meanwhile, I was answering mandated questions as to why exactly I needed to buy PE…”NOT to make meth” is apparently not a sufficient answer
February 7th, 2012 at 10:41 am
If you believe in buying things only when you need them — take out a Kleenex, blow your nose, and hand it to the nice automaton. If you’d rather be prepared, you’re out of luck.
Government is not your friend.
February 7th, 2012 at 11:08 am
Having read the article, I’m inclined to agree that these laws are absurd, but that this lady is not a saint as she tries to make herself out to be.
February 7th, 2012 at 11:08 am
They ruined the best medicine out there with these laws. Aleve cold and sinus was awesome yet they changed the ingredients so they could sell it over the counter and put some shit in it that burns your sinuses like hell…
February 7th, 2012 at 11:12 am
Her face looks worn/tired/aged. She associates with drug users. And she’s from a meth state. Probably a smurf.
And I couldn’t care less about what she cooks/smokes/smurfs. The police state I do care about.
February 7th, 2012 at 11:27 am
@2 BD, a serf’s argument. Sure, pot’s no worse than tobacco, as I argued earnestly back in ’69. So pot’s still not legal, but tobacco is illegal. See how that goes? We gave them the inch. How do you like the mile?
February 7th, 2012 at 11:42 am
@Jeff, in their home state they need a prescription for the drug. Since they don’t have insurance, they would have to pay the full cost of a doctor’s visit to get that prescription. In the other state, they can save money by buying it directly without a prescription.
February 7th, 2012 at 1:15 pm
You should really put a rage warning on that link.
February 7th, 2012 at 1:21 pm
That asinine law in MS causes my family no end of trouble. We’ve all got chronic sinus problems and psuedophedrine is the only thing that provides relief.
February 7th, 2012 at 1:51 pm
In Missouri a bill to contol baking soda has been introduced, put it behind the counter and require ID to buy it.
February 7th, 2012 at 3:06 pm
@irish red
I got that part, it’s that her explanation is too detail specific and to me suggests deceptive behavior/misdirection.
If you were skeet shooting and I stopped you on a traffic stop and saw the shotgun and spent shells in your backseat, your explanation would be just that…you were skeet shooting( theoretical arguement, not drudging up a 5th amendment scenario). Assuming it isn’t against the law for you to own a shotgun, transporting it from a skeet range to your house is a perfectly reasonable explanation as to why a shotgun is in your backseat. Assuming that both the cop and the driver are amicable and reasonable people, that should be the end of the conversation. But if you start spinning the highly detailed tale about you, your Uncle Charles, his cousin Raymond, a sixer of beer that is missing two cans, chupacabra, a blueberry pie, a hiking trip you went on three months ago…you suddenly went from normal guy to nervous and evasive guy.
If I’m wrong I’ll eat my hat, but my gut tells me she’s intentionally being evasive. I agree with A Critic that she is probably a smurf.
That said, I miss ephedra. I don’t think it should be government regulated. I don’t have uber-agro fantasies where people that disagree with me online come into my jurisdiction to buy ephedra and I get to beat them and arrest them…I’m just calling a spade a spade on this one.
February 7th, 2012 at 5:34 pm
We’d have been put down as blithering idiot extremists if we’d come out in public and predicted this 30 years ago.
This is what you get when you fall for the “reasonable restrictions” ruse (the old Tripple R).