my younger brother had trouble sleeping last night because of a cough, so today I went to buy some cough syrup to help him. I went to walgreens who promptly rejected me due to the whole not-being-3-weeks-older thing. yeah, crazy

walking out I noticed two kids who went to my high school who werent exactly valedictorians. I paid them 5 bucks to shoplift me some cough medicine

so, moral of the story, this law is absolutely retarded and prevents those who wouldnt shoplift (like me) from getting it for legit purposes, but the kind of people who do abuse it also tend to be those who shoplift. do the math

I must say, the fact that they scanned rather than just looked at it (as I have seen them do for cigarettes and alcohol) lead me to believe my info is being stored somewhere and I am now- if only temporarily- under surveillance for drug activity.

If in fact I am buying the medicine to create meth, why wouldn’t I buy it in bulk from some distributor that doesn’t give a crap? I’m buying one bottle of Mucinex and now, as usual, I get the criminal treatment while some real criminal is off somewhere blowing up a lab or something.

Had I not been nearly choking to death on mucus balls the size of almonds I would have left without it. Imagine my disappointment to see a generic brand of the stuff at my next stop, a dollar store where I dropped in to stock on on cheap Kleenex. I purchased it without issue, used it and am on the road to recovery.

Now I just have to figure out how to return the other unopened bottle back to Target wtihout really setting off some sort of alert.

I had a similar experience, only way worse. I’m a nurse. I’m 23 years old. My boyfriend, who I live with, became sick. He had a fever/chills/body aches/sore throat/runny nose/cough/ ect. This all started on a Thursday a week or 2 ago. We went to Rite Aide (a local pharmacy) to pick up some meds to help him get through work on Friday. I purchased a bottle of Tylenol Dayquil to get him through the day and a bottle of Tylenol Nightquil (cool burst) to get him through the night. It helped. He ended up using up the dayquil all weekend, which managed his symptoms. On monday, he called out of work and made an appointment with his doctor. At this point, he had very little Dayquil left… So on my way home from work on Monday evening, I stopped at Rite Aide to grab him some more. I went to the counter to purchase it, and the cashier took my ID. Then, the cash register started beeping obnoxiously and he said he couldn’t sell it to me because I had already purchased 2 bottles last week. I was furious! I went off on a rampage that this wasn’t for me and my SICK boyfriend needed it. The cashier then told me that the government is tracking how often people are buying cough medicine! He made me feel like a criminal! So, I then said “well what if I catch whatever my boyfriend has or whatever my patients have?” he said “well then you better send your boyfriend in to buy your cough medicine, because we wont sell it to you.”

HOW REDICULOUS IS THAT!!!!!

So, what is the difference between what is on the shelf and available to everyone to take to the checkout and what is behind the pharmacists desk that they have to log into the computer? Either way they are tracking your purchases, keeping your name, making sure you only buy one box….

At this point, I don’t know what medicine I CAN buy that isn’t “bad” enough to be made into meth. It sure seems like ANYTHING can be made into meth – are they going to start carding for batteries too?

I guess I just don’t understand the mentality that EVERYONE is suspected of making meth because they buy cold medicine. If I WAS making meth, do they really think I would walk into the store (with an ID), buy one box, pay real money, and be on my way? More and more we are hearing of robberies of these stores for a reason. If they steal it (even at gun point) there is no paper trail – a survalence video yes, but they sure don’t check their IDs…