I'm sure most of you have been to a pharmacy lately to buy some cold and flu tablets and have had to show ID in order to buy a product, it is a pain, but what are some of the good points of keeping this system?
2007-11-10 12:35:45 · 9 answers · asked by needhelp1811 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
There isn't one. It's more work for the pharmacy and if the cops need to hang on a charge on you later, this will help if you ever had a cold.
2007-11-10 13:05:24 · answer #1 · answered by .. .this can't be good 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People can use pseudoephidrine to make meth. In recent years, there are new laws about how much pseudo you can buy in a certain amount of time (like, say, no more than a 30 days supply every month). This way, if you are sick you can still get your medication, but meth labs can't get enough to make large amounts of meth. They look at your ID to keep track of how much people buy, and to make sure that you don't just buy a 30 day supply at every pharmacy in your region.
The good news is that domestic meth production is drastically reduced, compared to a few years ago. Now almost all of it comes from Mexico, which is a completely different problem. The other good point is that most drug manufacturers have switched to other medicines like phenylephrine, which cannot be turned into meth.
2007-11-10 21:13:23 · answer #2 · answered by jellybeanchick 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
sudafed or pseudoephedrine has been used to create street drugs for years. this system is a way to monitor who buys and at what amounts. There was one drug store years ago that if the cashier rang up more than 4 cold medicine items an alert to hold the transaction would happen.
2007-11-10 20:46:50 · answer #3 · answered by foofy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um... let me think about this. It leads to less crystal meth being cooked in kitchens with toddlers playing on the floor as the caustic lye smoke rolls up out of the saucepan where it's mixed with pseudoephedrine-based products, it takes a small amount of methamphetimine off the streets, which in turn, makes a few children and a few cops safer, prevents a few burglaries and, maybe, even leads to less meth-addicted teens on the streets. Could that be an upside to having to record all pseudoephedrine-based products?
2007-11-10 22:37:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Keeps the drugs in the back away from thieving cranksters, allows pharmacy folks to call the cops when the same crankster comes in to buy multiple packs often and, slightly, but hardly, curbs home meth lab operations.
2007-11-10 20:42:57 · answer #5 · answered by California Street Cop 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's a joke. all it does is inconvenience the good people. Kids get high drinking cough syrups. They've done it for years. If a druggie wants something, he will get it. Druggies don't sign for things.
2007-11-10 21:14:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Kids were getting high making drugs off of it. It is suppose to scare kids away. The store gets in trouble if they do not record it. Individuals that want to use it for illegal drugs now find it harder to do so.
2007-11-10 20:53:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It acclimatizes the public into thinking that producing ID to do everyday things is "normal".
2007-11-11 02:00:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm just POed that morons intent on wrecking their bodies, families, and lives... make my life more difficult because of their idiocy.....
2007-11-10 20:54:09 · answer #9 · answered by lordkelvin 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋