Heh...great work, guys. But what exactly has the Drug War done to a martini? I haven't noticed yet, but I spend most of my time in Australia (though there's a creeping neo-prohibitionist line coming up in the lefty press here about how terrible alcohol is for our society, etc...)

When I can force myself to take NyQuil I know I'm really sick. When I start to gag looking at the bottle and put it back in the cabinet, I know I'm better.

*sigh* Now what am I going to do?

and soon they will change the formula in Sudafed.

Oh, for Christ's sake. I only get sick about once a year, but when I do it's a week-long batten-down-the-hatches doozy.

This sucks.

If pseudophedrine hydrocloride is outlawed, only Mexican Border Brothers will get me my damn stuffy nose fixed. Luckily I work at a prison, so I can get it anytime I want.

Provided I have enough stamps to pay for it, por supuesto. (Just kidding, Central Investigative Unit folks!)

More casualties from the stupid WOD. Not only have they ruined NyQuil, but I'm a 70 year old man who needed a bottle and they embarrassed me and almost frisked me in the checkout line.

It's dumb, Gods know it's dumb, but the pseudephed is a stimulant and makes it harder to get to sleep. Luckily the doxylamine is very sedating, and, this being Vodkapundit, you know all about the alcohol.

Actually, they already have changed Sudafed, in a manner of speaking. There's a new formula designated Sudafed PE. The real stuff is kept behind the counter here in Michigan already. Yet another restriction on law-abiding citizens that will cut meth production not at all.

The meth meme is the drug hysteria du jour. We have a new one every seven years or so.

The majority laps it up.

Damn. I used to love it when I was sick enough to need Nyquil, because that meant a night of the best dreams ever, in Technicolor with 5.1 surround sound.

Can't we just declare victory in the war on drugs and bring the kids home? Or, like Iraq, is the war on drugs unwinnable?

Quick, find me a Democratic politician to query...

My home state of Nebraska decided to put the NyQuil behind the counter and require you to show ID and sign a store log. I still got my NyQuil though.

I didn't know NyQuil was changing it's ingredients. I'd stock up on the old stuff still in stores but the whole point of the log is to find people who buy large amounts, because some are meth makers.

There has to be a better way.

Quick comment - JUST BUY THE STORE BRAND NYQUIL. Those formulations lag many, many years behind the big boys.

And here I thought most methamphetamine was smuggled in from Mexico.

Donut: It won't lag behind at all if state or federal regulations make it not have pseudoephedrine.

(Hell, I remember when you could get straight ephedrine!)

And to think I was pissed when NyQuil dropped the alcohol content from 25% to 10%. Had to start chasing the stuff with a shot of vodka.

Note: The cherry stuff mixed with a decent vodka isn't all that bad.

I just had to buy my ill daughter (sinus infection, doctor recommended pseuoephedrine) some good old Corocedin D. Looked everywhere for it, finally realized it was behind the counter now. Had to show ID and sign for the 2 day supply. Well, after it ran out, went back for more, and the clerk was reluctant to sell me more, because 'you just bought some two days ago'... Luckily the sign in sheet said 'no more than 3 packages per transaction' so she reluctantly took my ID and name again....

And here I thought most methamphetamine was smuggled in from Mexico.

Nope, it is proudly make here in NEW Mexico. It's our second biggest import, right behind green chile.

I'm really ticked about this Nyquil thing now. Whenever I'd get a bad cold I'd just take two caps of Nyquil, a tylenol with codeine and then chase it all down with a good swig of Southern Comfort.

I'm not sure if it really helped the cold but A. I really didn't care, and B. the symptoms usually cleared up by the time I regained consciousness.

It was a little something I like to call, "The Trifecta".

Gee and here at Wallymart I got carded for the generic nyquil ripoff on the instruction of the cash register display.

Being checked by someone not old enough to buy it herself was mildly amusing. I asked her if this was the low point stuff since it asked to make sure that I was over 18. [Zoooooom] right over her head. Gotta be getting old.

According to DEA estimates, 80% of the crank is produced by large scale operations which will no doubt be able to cope with the increased demand if tweakers are unable to cook their own. The Mexican cartels and the motorcycle "clubs" are not buying their precursors over the counter; this nonsense will not reduce the availability one bit.

Meth used to be produced via a very differant process from a chemical known as P2P (the movie Witness had to do with the diversion of a load of it) but the supply in the US has been cut off. That stuff had a different racemic makeup, and was actually not as strong. If they manage to eliminate ephedra-based stimulants, whatever comes next for self-medicating depression will be stronger and more destructive.

I actually had a heated discussion with a girlfriend last year who wanted me to stop my Sudafed (generic) doses even though they were by doctor's orders for allergies.

She evidently was convinced I was eventually going to be drawn into the crystal meth crowd. It's not like it's a legitimate drug or something.

We're not seeing each other any more.

I love Sudafed and hate pointless regulation as much as the next person, but if you really want to take care of your cold, start on zinc lozenges at the very first sniffle.

And I hear great things about Zicam. (I don't know, but I assume the Zi part stands for zinc.)

Not to worry, folks. In just a few more years the US will incarcerate itself to sublime perfection. A drug free America is just around the corner. At least that's what the PSA's on TV say.

It's a conspiracy against the Catholics, I'm telling you. The amount it's legal to sell to an individual in a month just isn't enough to treat a large family.