A lot of those things are locked up because they are precursor compounds for various illegal chemicals...
Buy Mucinex, spend a couple days in a kitchen lab and then you get DEA interested in what you are doing...
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
CaBil - Apr 22, 2008 4:20:35 am PDT #2943 of 10001
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Toddson - Apr 22, 2008 4:22:42 am PDT #2944 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Yes, but it was out on the shelf - I could scoop up as many packets as I wanted (you could probably fit a bunch into assorted pockets). But since I was honest and paying for it, they wanted my birthdate ... which, huh? asking for ID I could understand, limiting the number of packages I bought I could understand, but leaving it out on the shelf and then declaring it a controlled substance?
Tom Scola - Apr 22, 2008 4:23:21 am PDT #2945 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Happy Day, Earth!
Emily - Apr 22, 2008 4:26:52 am PDT #2946 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
So my question is this. WTF???
No kidding! Especially I appreciate the ones where you actually can get the razor blades, but the alarm still goes off. You push the button, retrieve the box (I assume this is meant to keep you from getting more than one, oh the horror), and are on your way to buy Mucinex or whatever, when you hear "Assistance needed in the men's shaving aisle." Which is particularly irritating as you're buying women's razors. But what's the point of that? Just to come see that you retrieved your razors okay, or that you're not stuffing your pockets with them?
CaBil - Apr 22, 2008 4:31:30 am PDT #2947 of 10001
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Ah, probably the result of the pharmacy industry and law enforcement agencies fighting it out in Congress.
The pharmacy industries want to sell things without limitations or registrations, while the law enforcement want to make these things impossible to get. Congress usually ends up in the middle making compromises that no one likes and are never effective.
I remember reading about one of the speed precursors, the DEA wanted to make selling large quantities a mandatory report, the manufacturers said, okay, but not for large purchases of it in capsule form. Who would go through the bother of breaking open thousands of capsules? Congress agreed that was a reasonable compromise. In some jurisdictions the end result was that the DEA and the police simply started asking the trash companies to contact them when they picked up dumpsters of popped pill capsules...
Toddson - Apr 22, 2008 4:41:51 am PDT #2948 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
From the news this morning - lobbying expenditures are at an all-time high. The #1 industry - drug companies. #2? insurance.
brenda m - Apr 22, 2008 4:49:14 am PDT #2949 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Who would go through the bother of breaking open thousands of capsules?
Have these people met a crackhead? I'm really not sure you can assume a rational decision-making process.
CaBil - Apr 22, 2008 4:54:04 am PDT #2950 of 10001
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Which was the law-enforcement agencies position, but the Congresscritters apparently thought they were exaggerating....
§ ita § - Apr 22, 2008 4:54:16 am PDT #2951 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
From what I've read it's way way down the list of ways people actually make the illegal drug, though. It just happens to be something one can be seen to be doing about it. Who cares about the actual impact?
Jessica - Apr 22, 2008 4:59:47 am PDT #2952 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
One of my local grocery stores locks up the baby formula and one doesn't. So I just don't shop at the one that does because it's a PITA to stand in line at the contraband counter. (And it doesn't hurt that the non-locking-up one has a better selection anyway.)
Happy Earth Day, btw!