I generally think the War on Drugs idea is daft. If people want to smoke crack until their teeth fall out and they're crapping their pants, that's their prerogative. I don't really care whether or not drugs are legalized, since I am, well, a productive member of society without the need of mind-numbing chemicals to make it through the day. However, I do not think that if drugs were legalized, there would be a huge change in how many people use. Drugs are fairly easy to come by. Almost anyone can buy drugs. The people that are stupid enough to do drugs are most likely already on them. Legalization wouldn't be the end of the world.
Here in the Good Old Meth Capital of the USA, restrictions on common items that could be used to make meth are in danger of increasing, which really chaps my butt:
If you live in Missouri, you could soon be forced to get a prescription to buy certain cold medicines.
A group of police officers wants over-the-counter drugs that contain pseudoephederine to be made prescription medications.
Pseudoephederine is a popular decongestant.
But it is also often abused, used as a key ingredient to make the dangerous, addictive, and illegal drug, meth.
This is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard in the history of mankind. In fact, I think the police who suggested this are sampling some of the same stuff they are trying to secure. It would screw up our health care system, although I probably don't need to worry about that since Obama and his minions are going to do a fine job anyway. But adding such a common item to health care costs would be inane, dumb, idiotic, moronic, et al. Perhaps the biggest piece of flawed logic here: LAST TIME I CHECKED, METH HEADS DON'T HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE. THEREFORE, THEY WILL BE ABLE TO PAY CASH AND GET MULTIPLE PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED FROM DIFFERENT PHARMACIES. Gaaaaaaawwwwdd! Stupid stupid stupid.
A St. Louis pharmacist, Randall Berger, makes my point exactly:
"Now you're talking about going to a physician, or going to the emergency room, getting a prescription. It is cost prohibitive, it is going to be really strenuous to the healthcare system, when really the only over the counter decongestant that a patient can buy without a prescription isn't strong enough, " says Randall Berger, R. Ph., a pharmacist at Williams Pharmacy in University City.
Requiring the 98% of Missouri citizens who are NOT cracked out of their minds to go through the hassle of prescriptions for like, Tylenol Cold Medicine, is outrageous. I find it a gross misstep on the part of the police department, and one that will make the police even more unpopular then they already are.
Besides, if meth heads want something with which to make their nefarious fare, they'll find a way to get it. Making all the rest of us non-adult-diaper-wearing-drug-addicts go to the doctor isn't going to stop a drug dealer from plying his trade. The meth heads will simply go to the ERs and doctors and rack of prescriptions. It wouldn't be hard to get multiple prescriptions filled for the same item if you were bent on doing it that way. (I am assuming most meth addicts don't have health insurance, which means they would end up being able to get all these prescriptions filled sight-unseen).
But some pharmacists we talked to call pseudoephedrine, "the best decongestant out there."
However Grellner points to Mexico, where they've made pseudoephedrine illegal.
There they've allowed for a larger over the counter dose of phenylephrine in its place.
Grellner hopes to have the prescription change passed in Jefferson City by the end of May.
Right now his organization has the support of the state's Chief's and Sheriff's associations.
Oh, yes, Mexico is just a wonderful country full of wheez-free people. This Grellner clown is such a butthole, it makes me want to punch a kitten right in the face.
Since this is even in danger of passing, I am going to start stocking up on cold medicine right now. Every time I go to the drug store, I will be buying a box or two to put away in my cabinet. Grellner can suck it.
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