Earlier this week, the State House of Representatives defeated HB 2808. The bill, which was introduced by State Rep Sean Roberts (R) of Hominy, was designed to make it more difficult for meth cooks and “smurfs” to acquire pseudoephedrine and other key meth ingredients. This would have been accomplished by requiring your pharmacist to make a “professional determination” on how you’re going to use drugs like Claritin-D or Sudafed.
The bill doesn’t seem like too bad of an idea, but it had some major flaws. It would have increased the size and scope of the government, added another layer of inconvenience to law-abiding citizens like you and me who just need treatment for allergies, and worst of all, would have led to a bunch of socioeconomic profiling and stereotyping by pharmacists.