The war on Sudafed

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Is anybody floored by the absolute stupidity of the right-wingers' war on Sudafed?

What I'm talking about here is the laws that have passed over the past 5 years or so that limit the amount of pseudoephedrine allergy drugs you can buy. Now right-wing lawmakers are trying to make it available by prescription only - in the name of fighting meth.

These laws have been an absolute failure. Meth is more out of control than ever, and prescriptions aren't meant to fight secondary abuses like this anyway.

More proof that our fascist lawmakers just don't think - or their brains are fried, so they can't think.

The whole War on Drugs is a failure, yet it keeps expanding.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Uh huh, so only "right-wingers" support these nanny state policies?

By very definition, this law is right-wing.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I'd heard that a lot of meth production had moved to Mexico from the U.S., which would indicate the war on Sudafed hasn't been pointless.

I bought some earlier this week because I have a cold. I went to the pharmacy counter at CVS, they scanned my driver's license barcode, and I signed on the cardswipe device. It was really easy, much less trouble than the old sign-in book. I don't see the problem in controlling this substance.

This fascist law inconveniences innocent buyers of Sudafed.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

It makes me cry that you wrote that right below where I explained that it's no inconvenience at all.

Then cry all you want to, because this law is an inconvenience.

The only people punished by it are the innocent.

Whoever came up with the idea for this law ought to be impeached.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Why in the Wide, Wide World Of Sports hasn't the government been sued yet over this law?

So far, it's only been used to prosecute parents of sick kids and elderly grandmothers with allergies.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Actually, the one state that has had the most success in cutting down on meth labs is Oregon, which has a prescription only law.  It's not meth use, but the meth labs that are the real problem here, and unless we legalize meth, going to prescription-only for Sudafed is the best option available to rid ourselves of the toxic waste dumps known as meth labs.

Oregon has seen more meth labs and drug abuse since the prescription requirement was enacted.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I just can't believe 38.5% of you support expanding the drug war. I expected it to be close to 0%.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Also, keep in mind that some people will view legalizing pot and legalizing meth as two different issues. Meth is more than a small amount more dangerous than marijuana, so even some people who want to legalize pot might still want to fight against meth and other hard drugs.

I'm not saying meth is good. Not by any means.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

http://www.ci.medford.or.us/Files/OregonMethLabStats.pdf

This has been debunked already as drug war propaganda.