DUMB LAWSUIT OF THE DAY: Suing Cold Medication Manufacturers Because Drug Dealers Make Drugs out of the Medication. Can I sue these people for making the legal world just a little bit more ridiculous? I’d also like to sue the people who made it so goddamn hard for me to buy Sudafed when I have a cold.
Amen to that. In my case, it's Advil Cold and Sinus (or the generic variety thereof). At one point the only place I could find it around here was at Target. I noticed that CVS has started carrying it again -- probably due to consumer bitching. But I was almost to the point of having to ask my doctor for a prescription, because the phenylephrine crap that replaced pseudoephedrine (PSE) in the new "PE" formulations does not have any effect on me whatsoever.
And I'm damn tired of being treated like a crimimal just so I can buy a box of 48 tabs. Next thing you know, they'll be fingerprinting us at the cash register. The rule should be "buy all you want, but if we catch you making meth with it, it's a field court-martial followed by a bullet in the head."
This kind of lawsuit sounds exactly like the ones filed by the assholes who sue gun manufacturers because some jackass used their product to commit a crime. The gun didn't commit the crime -- the asshole using it did. Ditto for the drug.
You can make explosives out of common household chemicals, too. Is somebody going to sue every grocery store and drug store in the country for selling soap and bleach? Or what about hardwares, for selling nails and wire and batteries and timer switches?
Where does it end?
[Update: I read the whole post at Volokh and apparently the suit got thrown out...but it's only a matter of time till these assholes find a sympathetic venue.]
I'm still mad that my old school Actifed no longer exists. When they did away with it I bought up all the stock my local pharmacy had. Now I'm out.
I've since found Zyrtec, which isn't bad.
But it's no Actifed.
You can probably still buy it in Canada.
In fact, Wikipedia (FWIW) says "USA pharmacy chain Walgreens' house-brand version of Actifed, Wal-Act, also continues to use the original pseudoephedrine/triprolidine formula." Whether or not that's up to date, who knows? It's Wiki.