War on drugs gets dumber and dumber
In Oregon, you may soon need a doctor’s prescription for Sudafed:
Oregon would be the first state in the nation to fight the spread of methamphetamine by requiring prescriptions for some cold medications under legislation that passed the House on Wednesday.
The 55-4 vote sent House Bill 2485 to the Senate, which unanimously approved a companion bill with stiffer penalties against makers of meth, an illegal stimulant, if children or seniors are present at houses used as labs.
Both chambers also approved $7.1 million in spending for added investigations and prosecutions of drug-makers and treatment of addicts.
In Tennessee, pharmacies are required to keep it behind the counter and ask for ID. Readers have reported to me that they even write down your driver license number. This is pretty stupid.
Now, that Sudafed commercial will get ridiculous. Instead of people coming in and the guy saying Aisle five, he’ll have to start asking for blood samples.
August 18th, 2005 at 9:04 am
[…] I mentioned that Oregon politicos were pondering requiring prescriptions for cough medicine to prevent the meth epidemic (EPIDEMIC, AARRGGHH!). Well, they did it: Oregonians just got “safer” today (and don’t worry, YOU’RE next!) with the passage of a new law to make “certain cough medicines” (”certain”, as in the ones that actually WORK that have pseudoephedrine in them) available by prescription ONLY. This should stop the meth labs and the meth pushers in their tracks, if only it were true that criminals obeyed laws. […]