Pseudoephedrine laws

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#1 softwareNerd

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Posted 28 September 2009 - 01:53 PM

These days, when I buy Sudafed, I have to show my driver's licence. I've always assumed that this goes into a database and if I'm buying a huge amount, the police may investigate.

From this news-article, I now understand that the rules are not what I had imagined (at least in Indiana)

buying more than a certain amount is a crime, not simply something that would trigger an investigation
it is up to the consumer to keep track of how many grams of pseudoephedrine are in the medicines they're buying, and to limit their purchases to the legal minimum
The legal minimum is far less than I would have imagined (Each tablet of Sudafed contains 120 mg of pseudoephedrine, making it 3.6 gms in 30 tablets). In Indiana, the per person limits is 3gms in a seven day period.

The laws vary across states.

In a somewhat related article, someone suggests that the average Joe commits three felonies a day.

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Posted 28 September 2009 - 02:32 PM

softwareNerd, on Sep 28 2009, 12:53 PM, said:

buying more than a certain amount is a crime, not simply something that would trigger an investigation
it is up to the consumer to keep track of how many grams of pseudoephedrine are in the medicines they're buying, and to limit their purchases to the legal minimum
The legal minimum is far less than I would have imagined (Each tablet of Sudafed contains 120 mg of pseudoephedrine, making it 3.6 gms in 30 tablets). In Indiana, the per person limits is 3gms in a seven day period.

The laws vary across states.

In a somewhat related article, someone suggests that the average Joe commits three felonies a day.

I can't say I'm suprised, a government with the goals that ours is pursuing has a stake in making sure every single citizen is a criminal so they can simply be detained whenever it suits whoever is in power.

As I say that I can't help but think of how paranoid I believed people who talked that way to be.. now, I'm afraid it has become reality.

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Posted 28 September 2009 - 03:07 PM

I think it is honestly to limit the use of those drugs in the making of Meth. But the government went too far in the prevention and made ridiculosu rules that persecute normal people. Also it is interesting to note that this rule is part of the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005, a part of the PATRIOT Act

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