December 27, 2001
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*rant mode on*
I went to the grocery store today to get some more medicine. Gene and I are both deep into the chest cold thing with coughing and such. The girls have it too, but not as bad. So I pick up 2 bottles of Nightquil and 2 boxes of Comtrex for the daytime. One set for Gene, one set for myself. I get up to the cash register and the clerk is ringing it up and suddenly the register makes a nasty sound. She looks at the tape, then at my items and says, "Oh, you can't buy more than three cold medications at once. It is a state law."
WHAT??? Apparently this is to prevent people from stocking up on medication that could be addicting or something. Yeah, that is me, the Comtrex drug addict. I rolled my eyes and told her to ring up the fourth item in a separate sale. She does so and I take my stuff home.
What moron came up with that law? Who in the heck does it protect? Anyone with half a clue can get around it anyhow, so what is the point? Obviously some red-tape boy in Sacramento thought it up as a "feel-good" law. Stupid people. Stupid law.
*rant mode off*
Comments (15)
We have the same law here. Can't get more than 48 cold tabs at a time. I think you can make methamphetamine out of them somehow....or something like that.... {{hugs}}
Unfortunately, the innocent suffer for the sins of the incredibly stupid.
mbjmom is right, some people make street drugs with cold medicine incredients. What is really stupid is that the legislature actually believed that a drug manufacture would be deterred by having to go to more than one store.
that is so weird!~ and irritating..
life is getting silly these days. I hope you feel better!
that is ridiculous
That was smart to ring it up separately!
I NEED THAT LAW! it keeps me joyfully coughing for eternity....
Oh, for crying out loud!!!! How dumb!
gah, if only it were all a joke. how bizarre. and how utterly pointless when one who really wants more than three items could simply *go somewhere else* to get more. big, big, big duh.
hope you feel better...
They're earning those fat salaries and perks they give themselves.
Stupidity abounds...
What do you expect from those same people who design the income tax returns and keep the Post office "running." Believe me, I go nuts dealing with there regulations day in and day out. If you think it is frustrating to apply for help at Social Services, please imagine what it is like to work there! Love to all of you. I hope you are feeling better soon. How did the WIC appointment go?
*shaking head* Geez! I never cease to be amazed at stupid laws!
. . . and the worst part of it is, as someone else pointed out, the people who are supposed to be detterd by this law won't be. *sigh*
*hugs* feel better soon. I am fighting the blasted head cold (hed code if you will) myself.
shannon
It's meth that can be made from cold medicine. Thus the law.
I stumbled on a neighbor's meth lab once, knowing that's what it was because they had a stack of like 20 boxes of Safeway cold medicine (equivalent to Advil) and lots of chemicals lying about. I reported them; meth labs are dangerous.
The ingredient in question "ephedrine" so if any of those meds have that in them, well then that's why you couldn't but very many. You addict, you.
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