The banning of drugs is handled at the executive level through regulatory law, not at the legislative level.  Furthermore, he could issue blanket pardons, the way Jefferson did.

Their “cure” not only doesn’t cure anything, but is worse than the disease.

Why should people with seasonal allergies, who have been using pseudophedrine properly for decades without prescriptions, have to jump through the hoops of making unneeded doctor’s appointments, paying co-pays, sitting around with their thumbs up their asses while pharmacists fill their prescriptions?

Well, I don’t think that it should be restricted at all.  It’s a much less dangerous drug than acetaminophen, which actually kills quite a few people. 

However, under the current system, you have to have to go up to the pharmacist, wait in line and have your driver’s license entered into the system in order to buy Sudafed.  And if you buy more than they think you need, the DA arrests you. 

Getting a prescription with unlimited refills and calling in advance would take less time than the current way of doing it.  And you wouldn’t be prosecuted for having allergies.

It’s called the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Congress can only do those things it’s authorized to do by the Constitution.  The states are held to that standard as well by the Fourteenth Amendment’s incorporation of the Bill of Rights.

If you’re going to toss around phrases like “state’s right wolf” it would be a good idea to actually know what you’re talking about first.

Why the fuck are we tolerating this sort of nonsense?  This is the sort of petty micromanaging that convicted prisoners are expected to put up with, not free god-damn people in a supposedly free country.

What’s next?  Prescriptions for aspirin?  Rx-only Vitamin C in case crazy Linus Pauling cultists need to be “protected” from trying to cure cancer with a fistful of Vitamin C tablets every day?

When do we say enough is enough and start throwing ropes over lamp-posts?

I live in Eugene, a town that fancies itself to be all green and organic. Several meth dealers here sell a brand of meth called ‘Kelp’ that is promoted as an ‘organic’ and green type of meth because the iodine used in its manufacture is made from seaweed collected on the Oregon Coast. Some of the labels also promote it as ‘fair trade’ meth, which sounds like a crock to me.

I can’t vouch whether or not this fancy so-called organic meth is any better than the other stuff ’cause I try to stay far, far away from meth and people who are using it.The bizarre thing is that this is clearly aimed towards a demographic I associate more with marijuana, powdered cocaine and microbrews. Many hippyish people I know would be more likely to use heroin than meth….and yet I keep hearing of this ‘Kelp’ meth.

Excuse me.  I think I’ll go get drunk now.

You’re still missing the various reasons these laws and measures are a priori stupid, ineffective, and ultimately a detriment to society.

Matches, pocket knife, 36 hours of whittling, ???, profit!

Lazy people don’t do synthesis, you can make plenty of money just casually extracting mescaline hydrochloride, speaking from experience.

-The DEA doesn’t think he’s running a meth lab, they think people who run meth labs are buying his product to use.
-The DEA has started keeping a much tighter rein on the active ingredient in his product in order to keep it out of the hands of the aforementioned meth labs (just like they did a couple years back with buying decongestants using psuedoephedrine). His response was:
-He was supposed to pay $1200 for a license to handle this chemical and refused.
-He was asked to keep tabs on who bought the product to the extent that he would report “suspicious” bulk purchasers. He refused.
-The DEA asked him for proof that he has security where his product is made to keep people from stealing the active ingredient. He sent them a picture of his dog sitting in front of his garage.
-He also does not appear to be able to tell the difference between the DEA and the TSA, as the article points out. This does not suggest he is good at dealing with bureaucracy.

So basically, ‘poor old innocent helpless little guy intimidated by the government’ actually just refused to comply with government regulations that WOULD have allowed him to keep his business.  Just not as bootleg as he liked it.  Life’s a bitch.  When you make

$100,000 a YEAR AS PER THE ARTICLE

selling something out of your garage, someone wants to regulate it.. who’d have thought?