But near as I can tell, Texas doesn’t make possession of the lab equipment illegal. It just requires companies that sell the equipment to keep really good records. Just like I can still get Claritin - I just have to get the pharmacist to get it for me, and he has to record some data about the transaction.
Oh Im quite sure someone somewhere is making note of all the beakers and such Im buying. As well as those Nazi history books I used to check out at the library.
It would seem, therefore, that laboratory glassware that is unmodified from its factory configuration would be legal as long as the factory did not design the glassware with intent to cater to the controlled substance and/or controlled substance analogue-manufacturing clientele. Somehow, I don’t think this was the intent, but I’d be curious as to whether or not a court has ever ruled on whether the intent of the designer, manufacturer, or modifier is essential to the law. To make an analogy, would it be fair to say that your proverbial pen was “designed, made, or adapted to commit forgery”? Is a pen “designed, made, or adapted to draw funny pictures of CEO Smelly”?
“Joe, about the new X-5500 SuperBallpoint - we ought to have a flex handle to make it easier for people to forge checks with it. It turns out that a study at Johns Hopkins shows that when a person intends to defraud, they unconsciously grip pens and other small instruments more tightly, leading to greater occurrences of wrist pain and fatigue more rapidly. According to a PhD dissertation by James Johnson (2007), flex handles on pens reduce fatigue by 15%.”
Supposedly the Feds take notes when certain types of plant and aquarium lights are sold.
I dunno, my impression is that it’s just another charge they can throw at you if they bust you for manufacturing.
They can come bust me and take some of this basil planting … the thing is unholy, I swear it grows about 6 inches a week of foliage. I have to make at least 1 night italian night or mediteranean night just to use the stuff up. I do drive by basilings 
Wait, what? Loratadine is behind the counter now? When did that happen, and in what jurisdiction? That was my go-to allergy medicine before I discovered the wonders of cetirizine. And it was never behind the counter in either Florida or Illinois—that was just for the pseudoephedrine stuff.
Here is the Texas code re owning lab glassware
Apparently it is also illegal to own lab glassware in several jurisdictions in Australia of all places.
I don’t have the time to do a thorough search at the moment, but I do recall that when I worked at DEA there were certainly types of lab glassware controlled by Federal law. Legitimate labs could have them (3-stemmed flasks seem to come to mind), but the general public couldn’t because they have limited practical applications and would be useful in manufacturing synthetic drugs. Perhaps I can dig out the reg when I get home later tonight.
I think its the same law for all drug paraphernalia: if you sell it new it’s legal, if you use it for drugs, it isn’t.
For example, in the college town I went to, there was the local convenience store that had a massive amount of marijuana bongs for sale right behind the counter. I mean massive. Small, all the way up to needing a ladder to hit it. They sold one type of cigar: Philly Blunt.
But the store posted signs everywhere calling these “tobacco accessories.” As in, please ask the sales associate for assistance with any tobacco accessories. Or, “You must be 18 years of age to purchase tobacco accessories.” Although, in my entire life I’ve never seen tobacco smoked from a glass bong, the ruse works because all the law has is you possessing/selling a piece of glass.
Now, if the same cops were to pull you over with a recently purchased bong, packed full of weed and filled with skunky bong water with your car smelling like three day old sweat, then it is the consumer that has turned the legal tobacco accessory into drug paraphernalia. It’s another legal fiction the law likes to employ.
Claritin-D is because it contains pseudo. Plain loratadine is still OTC.