Why is marijuana illegal, but pseudoephedrine remain a legal over the counter drug?

Question

without pseudoephedrine, there is no way a person can cook METH in their kitchen. Why does it remain over the counter and legal so that anyone can buy it and make meth?

Answer 1

because life isn't fair.

Answer 2

Actually the laws have changed in regards to pseudoephedrine, I have chronic severe sinus infections and use high dose pseudoephedrine 300 mg (2ea 150 mg tabs Q4 during an infection). My last infection was in December and I had to go through *&^% to get enough without a script...had to sign my life away and show and log my ID. Sudefed is the only one that is available readily and it's a 1mg tab...M&M's if you ask me! If you were in the business of making meth, you would have to clean out the county to make a batch.

Those meth junkies have made it really hard for those that actually need the stuff for medicinal use.

Answer 3

have you tried a sudafed without the pseudoephedrine? they suck! it doesn't work anymore. the problem with a drug war is you can't declare war on chemistry... the reason it was in sudafed is because it works. that's also the reason you can make meth with it.

the issue with marijuana is sort of different. it was first made illegal because it was perceived as a black drug and a mexican drug and the law increased the things you could hassle minorities over. it is completely misguided because marijuana is on par with alcohol as far as it's effects. what is sad is marijuana has great medical uses too, including the munchie effect which is good for anorexics and people in the late stages of cancer. once again, declaring war on chemistry is not effective. now the hospitals can't benefit from the drug, yet people who want to abuse it can still get it. everyone loses. the drug war is retarded.

Answer 4

In the state I live in a person can not just go into a drug store and by stuff like Sudafed any longer. It is now kept behind the pharmacy counter. The purchase is limited to NO more than 5 boxes in a 30 day period. You have to sign for the purchase as well as provide a valid address and show valid ID.

Answer 5

The reason is that they are two very different drugs, with very different users. One is an herb that grows virtually everywhere, a weed most truly, and would have almost no economic value for the underground if it was legal. And no value whatsoever to justify the salaries of police, probation officers, lab technicians, politicians pro and con, and a host of hangers on to any bureaucratic system.

Pseudo-ephedrine is normally used perfectly legitimately by people who have allergies and colds. It is used illegally by people who build chem labs (however garage-style easy they may be) in order to enslave young people in their addictions. The uses are very different.

This is not to say we can justify making either one illegal. But then, if meth was legal, and people were free to make their own decisions with regards to drugs, they could freely ask any doctor they went to for advice and treatment. But there would also not be any incentive for the underground to get them addicted and enslaved.

The problem with illegal drugs is that they are illegal. You run around with criminals to get them. Has nothing to do with the actual chemistry (or herbology) in any case.

Answer 6

the lobby of stinking bigot,,religeous,republicans,has been hard to defeat,even though its obvious most all child sex offendors and gun distribution points ,to mentally ill and disturbed individuals continue ,they claim its all for god,,not the almighty dollat that stinking bigot republicans worship,,oh dont forget the power to tell everyone else whats right and wrong,,i say get off your high horse you stinking bigot hypocrit republican.

Answer 7

it's hard to tax marijuana

Answer 8

Because it has a legitimate pharmaceutical use.

Answer 9

It is more restricted now than it was.