Oh how it starts out so well-intentioned. Nothing like a database of purchasers. Here is part of the operative sentence “stores some personal information about buyers”. Some? I would have to subscribe to the paper for the full story, but let’s just say, I have the gist of it. Indiana, I thought you had better sense. There will be others after you, that may not be so well-intentioned and use the database you set up for ugly purposes.
Pharmacists and police are gearing up to implement a new Indiana law that will better help them identify and track methamphetamine makers and dealers.
Beginning Jan. 1, retailers selling ephedrine and pseudoephedrine must use an electronic system that tracks drug sales in real time and stores some personal information about buyers.
The National Precursor Log Exchange, or NPLE, will issue “stop-sale” alerts to pharmacists if buyers try to purchase more than the allowable limit within a 30-day period. The limit has been reduced to 7.2 grams — or about 240 cold pills — from 9 grams. The one-day limit remains 3.6 grams.
Currently, police have to review hundreds of pages from log books from pharmacies to determine who is buying more than is legally allowed. From The Republic
July 11, 2011 at 9:20 pm
This smacks of the TSA. Because Arab males flew planes into buildings, infants, the elderly, and disabled people have to be sexually assaulted.
July 11, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Availability of the materials is not the cause of the drug problem. Sheesh.
July 11, 2011 at 7:11 pm
They never seem to be able to get it do they AOW?
July 11, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Keeping track of cold medicine users could also lead to keeping track of all the other stuff that goes into meth. It is my understanding that a lot of the ingredients can be found in the cabinet under the kitchen sink, things The Wife uses to clean house. Are they going to track that stuff too? A lot of products nowadays have that RFID (I think that’s the right initials) chip or whatever, so if they track enough of the known ingredients to one location, they might have reason for a bust. And all you are doing is a little spring cleaning.
July 11, 2011 at 1:03 pm
Good point. I am sure this is just the beginning. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and this will surely lead to a hellish existence.
July 11, 2011 at 9:41 am
This is how statists snuff freedoms. Meth cookers (less than one tenth of 1% of the population) use cold medicine, so the other 99.9% of must be treated as criminals.
Based on this logic, the state should just tag us all for constant monitoring.
July 11, 2011 at 9:47 am
Excellent point S. So it looks like we will soon be seeing it crossing the border from Mexico. That is how it will be done. No doubt soon we will have a chip implanted. Yes indeed. The fastest and quickest way to keep track of all that we buy. Wait till we go to the supermarket.
July 11, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Yes, a chip at the supermarket would fit in nicely with Michelle’s dietary plan for us. I would imagine the default setting on her chip would NOT include ribs, tamales, pizza, etc.