Should pseudoephedrine be by prescription only in Oklahoma?

[Townsend]

What?  I can only use eight 12 hour tablets a day? 

Outrage!

What if I'm really really stuffed up?

I think the most in a 12 hour is 20 so you could get 50 tabs a month.

[Conan71]

[nathanm]

What?  I can only use eight 12 hour tablets a day? 

I thought you had a family. Surely you understand the concept of buying medicine for other people when they're sick.

[Gaspar]

I thought you had a family. Surely you understand the concept of buying medicine for other people when they're sick.

You are correct.  If I had a family of 8, and pseudoephedrine was the only decongestant on the market, this would present a problem. 

I don't, and it's not.

[nathanm]

You overestimate the amount of Sudafed you're allowed to buy. It would help if the manufacturers would package it such that each box divided evenly into one's monthly limit. As it is, two boxes and you're done a week early.

[Townsend]

You overestimate the amount of Sudafed you're allowed to buy. It would help if the manufacturers would package it such that each box divided evenly into one's monthly limit. As it is, two boxes and you're done a week early.

Is the 96 tab box not available here?

[nathanm]

Is the 96 tab box not available here?

Not at Walgreen's, at least any time I've gone.

[custosnox]

Is the 96 tab box not available here?

I've never seen it.  And I think that would exceed the monthly recommended dosage, which is what this is based on.  The 2.5 boxes is a figure intended to reflect that, not an amount that obviously exceeds that.

[dbacks fan]

Tweaking on cilantro. One of my favorite herbs for seasoning, and a key ingrident in my brisket marinade, and pico de gallo.

[dbacks fan]

Gee, you know what? Those that want to make meth, will just do what they are doing now, and would continue to do in the future. They will use straw buyers to circumvent the laws to get the precursor, and continue to manufacture meth. As for making it prescription only, sorry that genie has been out of the bottle for at least 30 years. I doubt that the FDA will reverse it. It's trying to change the gun laws to prevent another "Fast and Furious" and the previous version of it, it's going to happen. And any changes that are proposed will be met by the manufacturers of the product and the retailers claiming that their right to do business is being infringened upon.

[patric]

Prohibition and legalization aren't our only choices when it comes to drugs. Proven programs can greatly reduce the harm caused by hard-core users—and reduce our prison population, too.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303425504577353754196169014.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Current drug policies do much more damage than they need to and much less good than they might, argues UCLA Prof. of Public Policy Mark Kleiman.   "For every complex problem," H.L. Mencken wrote, "there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong."

That is especially true of drug abuse and addiction. Indeed, the problem is so complex that it has produced not just one clear, simple, wrong solution but two: the "drug war" (prohibition plus massive, undifferentiated enforcement) and proposals for wholesale drug legalization.

Fortunately, these two bad ideas are not our only choices. We could instead take advantage of proven new approaches that can make us safer while greatly reducing the number of Americans behind bars for drug offenses.

Our current drug policies do far more harm than they need to do and far less good than they might, largely because they ignore some basic facts. Treating all "drug abusers" as a single group flies in the face of what is known as Pareto's Law: that for any given activity, 20% of the participants typically account for 80% of the action.

Most users of addictive drugs are not addicts, but a few consume very heavily, and they account for most of the traffic and revenue and most of the drug-related violence and other collateral social damage. If subjected to the right kinds of pressure, however, even most heavy users can and do stop using drugs.

[Vashta Nerada]

Why Oklahoma's law doesn't matter  --


3 tons of key methamphetamine ingredient seized at LAX

[Conan71]

Why Oklahoma's law doesn't matter  --


3 tons of key methamphetamine ingredient seized at LAX

Seized in Los Angeles?

How does that relate to Oklahoma? 

[Red Arrow]

Seized in Los Angeles?

How does that relate to Oklahoma? 

Mail order.  Only another day or two to Oklahoma by truck.

[Teatownclown]

Seized in Los Angeles?

How does that relate to Oklahoma? 

Breaking Bad is shown in both LA and here?