Meth and Me

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dog428

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So, I go to my local pharmacy today to get a prescription filled for my wife. While I'm there, I remember we're almost out of allergy medicine. I tell the guy I need a box of the Advil Cold stuff on the shelf.

He grabs the box, takes out a big-ass binder from under the counter and starts flipping pages. After a couple seconds, he says he can't sell it to me.

It seems that earlier this month, when me and my wife were both suffering from head colds, I purchased two boxes of medicine containing pseudophedrine from this pharmacy. According to this guy, the law states that no one customer can purchase more than two boxes of this stuff -- no matter the quantity of pills -- per month. So, there's no way he can sell it to me.

Now, I understand that this pseudophedrine **** is being used to make meth. I understand meth is a big problem. But I ask you, what sort of damned impact do they honestly believe this law is having on stopping this trend?

They're keeping up with who buys what by entering the info into these binders. Since that's all they're doing, no one has any idea who has bought what at other stores. And since I can stand on some corners and throw a rock in five different directions and hit five different drug stores -- all of which I can walk in and purchase at least two boxes of medicine containing pseudophedrine -- how is this dumb **** doing anything other than annoying the hell out of people?

Look, I'm all for stomping out the meth craze, but who comes up with dumbass laws like this?
 

I would guess that the law will change when you stop making meth ;)
 
You know what they say Slappy: Don't tell me about the child birth, show me the baby.

Get it ****in done Dog. I'm getting ****in antsy over here.
 
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Dog, earlier this month I had a drug counter wench ask me what I was going to use it for. I had half a mind to hock a lugie on the desk and ask if she had any other questions that were none of her damn business...but I thought better of it.


But if Meth will better cure phlegm... :D
 
On a very special Blossom...Blossom and Six try meth for the fifth time.

"Dad, I didn't know if I liked it! I kept blacking out every time I took it. This time, I didn't black out and I realized..."

A very special episode that no parent can miss. This Thursday, only on NBC...
 
hockeybeat said:
On a very special Blossom...Blossom and Six try meth for the fifth time.

"Dad, I didn't know if I liked it! I kept blacking out every time I took it. This time, I didn't black out and I realized..."

A very special episode that no parent can miss. This Thursday, only on NBC...

******* it, get your cheesy 80s sitcoms right...

It was the middle girl on Full House who became a meth head...
 
Mizzougrad96 said:
hockeybeat said:
On a very special Blossom...Blossom and Six try meth for the fifth time.

"Dad, I didn't know if I liked it! I kept blacking out every time I took it. This time, I didn't black out and I realized..."

A very special episode that no parent can miss. This Thursday, only on NBC...

******* it, get your cheesy 80s sitcoms right...

It was the middle girl on Full House who became a meth head...

******* it, Blossom and Full House were on in the 90s! :)
 
Much like Calvin once wondered who the dude was who pulled on a cow's udder and decided to drink the stuff that came out, I've wondered who was the dude who thought "Hmm...if I mix certain cold medicines, Iodine and the strip you strike matches on and put it through a dangerous process which includes aceton, I bet I could make a kickass drug"
 
expendable said:
Dog, earlier this month I had a drug counter wench ask me what I was going to use it for. I had half a mind to hock a lugie on the desk and ask if she had any other questions that were none of her damn business...but I thought better of it.


But if Meth will better cure phlegm... :D

As the husband of a fine woman who counted pills while working her way through school, I'd say you made the right call by not saying anything.

As for the thread, I don't really have a problem with the cold medicine restrictions. There are bigger fish to fry.
 
Hate to burst the bubble of the OTC drug makers, but most studies confirm that these medications are ineffective in controlling symptoms. As well, their side effects aren't to be sneezed at.

Pseudephedrine is not a benign drug and in fine print there are warnings for people with high blood pressure to avoid it. As well, people routinely show up in the ER with palpitations and rapid heart rates because of the drugs.

Fluids, humidity and time work just as well. Just thought you might be interested.
 
PopeDirkBenedict said:
Much like Calvin once wondered who the dude was who pulled on a cow's udder and decided to drink the stuff that came out, I've wondered who was the dude who thought "Hmm...if I mix certain cold medicines, Iodine and the strip you strike matches on and put it through a dangerous process which includes aceton, I bet I could make a kickass drug"

Don't forget the drain cleaner, starter fluid and antifreeze.
 
For about six months in the 1980s I had a girlfriend who was a bit wild. We had nothing in common, we met one night in a bar and it seemed like a good idea at the time, but she's a nice person and we still do Christmas cards. Some of her friends were, ummm, interesting. Anyway, we drove out of the city one day to visit her mom and she also wanted to visit an old friend. We get to the friend's house and it's the strangest house I'd ever seen. There were six TVs in the living room and four stereos. All kinds of expensive-looking nicknacks and silver and gold and copper. Guitars. Amps. Looked like a damned pawnshop. And this woman was really strange, jumpy. We leave. In my car I say, is your friend a coke dealer? "Nah, meth dealer," she says. The friend was busted a couple years later and went to prison. Glad the cops didn't come while we were there.
 
**** like this is why I only buy dayquil and nyquil now. But if I did want the OTC stuff that's no longer so OTC, and someone asked me what i was using it for, I'd walk over to the paper aisle, grab a box of tissues, blow my nose on one, and rub it all over that ****ing notebook.

IT's pretty obvious when I have a cold, especially with the way I talk. It would be about the dumbest question someone could ask me.
 

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