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

[groovychk]

Originally published at Twixel.net. You can comment here or there.

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.
—

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

[deviantgm.livejournal.com]

Private bodies would be a better idea. I just posted on the idea in general as it relates to regulatory bodies, and contrasted a couple of private vs. public bodies. Basically, it is the public that watches the watchers. It is still illegal to poison someone through negligence, so privatizing FDAish entities would only remove the protective blanket of government from its shoulders.