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Lawmaker wants baking soda to be sold behind counter | St. Louis Area News |
KMOV.com | St. Louis, MO

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis legislator wants to require that baking soda be sold behind the pharmacy counter, as part of an effort aimed at a base ingredient in crack cocaine.   The proposal by Democratic Representative Talibdin El-Amin is modeled after a state law that requires some cold medicines to be placed behind the pharmacy counter because they contain ingredients used to make meth.   The anti-meth law requires customers to show a photo I-D and sign a book specifying their name, address and how much they purchased.
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Absolutely ridiculous.
I’m sick and tired of punishing the many for the disruption of the few.
The powers that be are already forcing me to stand in prescription drug lines and get even MORE scrutiny to buy “over the counter” anti-allergy medicine (showing my ID and signing a log book) than I do to get prescription drugs.
Nanny State combined with the power grabbing “War on Drugs”. Neither are good and neither work.

Comments

[kyrie1618.livejournal.com]

I have problems with laissez faire capitalism as well, but they mostly stem from the fact that the free market seems to concentrate power into fewer and fewer hands. If people are to behave we need seperation of powers, we need transparency, and we need free exchange of information.

Between vertical integration, intellectual property, and NDAs, I don't see any way the libertarian ideal can ever work -- it's unstable and decays into monopoly/feudalism, IMHO.

[deviantgm.livejournal.com]

Its hard to say, because no one has actually tried it.