Ok, so I take an allergy medicine that contains pseudoephredrine, which before a few weeks ago was a prescription only medication (Zyrtec-D). The drug in question is now available over-the-counter, but this means that not only do I have to give the pharmacy my driver’s license information so that I can entered into a database (something I didn’t have to do, by the way, when picking up pain killers in the opiate family for my wife after surgery a few years back) so that I don’t buy too much pseudoephredrine at a time, never mind that I can now no longer buy as much in a month as I could with my prescription (which is really annoying).

Because, of course, the only reason someone would want a decongestant would be to make illicit drugs.

Thanks, Congress, for “doing something” about drugs. No doubt when I get a sinus headache because I have less access to pseudoephredrine,¹ it will mean one less meth addict on the street, because Heaven knows that these silly restrictions will stop meth production.

1. And yes, I know there are other OTC drugs I can take–it is just galling that I am forced to do so. [↩]