Arrested for Buying Too Much Cold/Allergy Medicine

“’25 arrested on meth-related charges.’ They stand accused of buying too much cold medicine. … [T]he charge is ‘unlawful possession of a precursor.’ The ‘precursor’ here is Sudafed. … Only one in the group has the following pasted after his name: ‘unlawful manufacturing of a controlled substance.’ This, we might presume, is the man with the meth lab; though we don’t know for sure. … Can you believe it? What was lawful only a few years ago now gets you written up in the papers as a drug dealer. It ruins your life. You now have a record.”

Read more: Free the Sudafed 25!

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