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Goddamned Drug Warriors
Mar. 30th, 2003 01:41 amCan
I just say that I fervently hope that every last Drug Warrior (tm) on the
planet chokes on his own vomit and dies in his sleep?
I went to the grocery store today to pick up a box of Sudafed. My lovely and talented wife was suffering the effects of sinus pressure and we were out of the stuff. So I grabbed a few other things and then headed over to the pharmacy section of the store--where I discovered several empty shelves. Each empty shelf had a sign posted announcing that these drugs were now at the front of the store, and directing the customer to ask the checker for them.
Sure enough, all the Actifed and Sudafed was all locked up in the glass-fronted cases right alongside the cigarettes. I asked the checker why, though I already suspected the answer. People can use the stuff to make methamphetamine. And kids can buy it and take lots of the drug at once to get some kind of chemical high.
Well that's just swell. Do I look like a 12 year-old chasing a buzz? Am I buying multiple armloads of Sudafed packages with a shifty look on my face. No! I just want to buy some medicine to relieve my wife's sinus pain. Morons. I can get the stuff just by asking, so how does locking it up help? If I....
Never mind. You know all the reasons why this is a stupid, useless bit of regulatory bullshit designed to make it look Something Is Being Done (besides hassling ordinary shoppers for no good purpose).
I went to the grocery store today to pick up a box of Sudafed. My lovely and talented wife was suffering the effects of sinus pressure and we were out of the stuff. So I grabbed a few other things and then headed over to the pharmacy section of the store--where I discovered several empty shelves. Each empty shelf had a sign posted announcing that these drugs were now at the front of the store, and directing the customer to ask the checker for them.
Sure enough, all the Actifed and Sudafed was all locked up in the glass-fronted cases right alongside the cigarettes. I asked the checker why, though I already suspected the answer. People can use the stuff to make methamphetamine. And kids can buy it and take lots of the drug at once to get some kind of chemical high.
Well that's just swell. Do I look like a 12 year-old chasing a buzz? Am I buying multiple armloads of Sudafed packages with a shifty look on my face. No! I just want to buy some medicine to relieve my wife's sinus pain. Morons. I can get the stuff just by asking, so how does locking it up help? If I....
Never mind. You know all the reasons why this is a stupid, useless bit of regulatory bullshit designed to make it look Something Is Being Done (besides hassling ordinary shoppers for no good purpose).
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