the new war on meth nets a granny trying to buy cold medicine

[SmarterthanYou]

I don't know, I never thought about it before. I guess you should write a letter to the editor. Ask them, how do I know?

most of the media were quite supportive of this law, in order to stem the meth epidemic.

 

[The Dude]

I watch a lot of the doc channel drug shows, Duh!!!
they are cooking meth in the hillbilly areas in 2 liter coke bottles with little sudafed.

In defense of the rich coke boys, how many of them are stealing etc to keep up the habit.
that said treating it like a disease like alchohalism is much more affective than jailing them.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

I watch a lot of the doc channel drug shows, Duh!!!
they are cooking meth in the hillbilly areas in 2 liter coke bottles with little sudafed.

In defense of the rich coke boys, how many of them are stealing etc to keep up the habit.
that said treating it like a disease like alchohalism is much more affective than jailing them.

Are you kidding? Most of the ones she talks about probably work for Wall Street or big NY law firms... everyone of those bastards is stealing. They just get away with it because they are good at bribing politicians.

 

[Don Quixote]

http://www.clarionledger.com/articl...ys-innocent-trip-Ala-spirals-into-meth-charge

Unless she wins her appeal, a Mississippi grandmother who spent $8.98 on a box of Sudafed must serve a year in jail.

Crackdowns taking place across the nation on pseudoephedrine and other products used to make methamphetamine have caused her to become a "prisoner of the drug war going on inside America," said her husband, Keith. "When common household medications and disinfectants are now illegal to possess, I believe we have gone overboard with the drug laws."

In 2009, grandmother Sally Harpold was handcuffed and jailed in Indiana after she bought a box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband and a box of Mucinex D cold medicine for her adult daughter in less than a week.

After she saw the crying children placed in the squad car, she said the officer asked if she wanted him to go ahead and call the Alabama Department of Human Resources "to pick up these kids."

A scene from her youth flashed into her mind of her brothers being taken away from her family by state welfare officials, she said. "I begged the officer, 'Please don't do this.'"

By this point, about an hour after being pulled over, she said she began begging the officer, telling him she would admit to whatever police wanted as long as they would "let my son take my babies."

He told her she had to confess all the Sudafed was hers, thereby putting her over the legal limit in Alabama, she said. "They made me admit to a crime I did not commit."

the current war on drugs is worse than prohibition - so lets declare victory and go home

 

[Airstrip One]

Concur, we can even plant a US flag on 1st & Yesler in Seattle to commemorate that victory.

You guys can suggest your own street corners from your own localities. I suppose Haight & Ashbury needs one.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

I bet the laws against drugs would be gone in a week if we decided on mandatory drug tests for elected officials.

 

[Rune]

Facts: The son is a junkie. The methadone is proof of this. He said the crack paraphenalia was his.
2. She had no prior arrests. Highly unlikely for an addict.
3. How many meth abusers go to Florida for scuba vacations?

I could see this happening to my wife.
She has never had so much as a speeding ticket.
She has persistant post nasal drip which sudafed manages well.
She is forgetful and routinely loses things such as her car keys.
She could easily lose half a box of sudafed in her "bag" the bottomless treasure trove she lugs with her everywhere,
then purchase another box of sudafed and be subject to a year in jail.

What mother, when faced with the threat of social services taking her kids or grandkids wouldn't say most anythng to prevent that from happening?

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I would agree. It is equivalent to the searches at the airport. They subject everyone to the same idiocy to try and get the very very very tiny minority that want to do something illegal. It is equivalent to stopping drivers at checkpoints everyday, anytime of the day to see if they are drunk.

I buy cold medicine I have to show my ID, get entered into a data base etc... which brings up a question. Why does the government require ID for cold medicine? does this not deliberately disenfranchise poor Democrats? Do they not deserve to be able to buy cold medicine? Why do the Koch brothers stop poor people from buying cold medicine? This is George Bush's fault.

In Mississippi, according to a nearly unanimous vote by the legislator, pseudoephedrine is now actually a prescription drug. Which sucks for me, since phenylephrine doesn't fucking work.