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[groovychk]

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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.

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[deviantgm.livejournal.com]

Meh. Not one of my big issues, but I'm not real clear on where the government has the right to declare drug illegal in the first place.

[groovychk.livejournal.com]

If we allow it then they can do it since "we" are the government.
Seeing as how we've given them tacit authority it's a big deal. :-) It needs to be made an issue of.

[deviantgm.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying it doesn't need to be dealt with... I'm just saying that I have other issues that I consider more important. I heard this morning that they changed a law in January that limited reservist deployments to a certain number in a period of time. For those that joined the military with the reasonable expectation of service under that law, the government has essentially altered their contracts ex post facto.