Oh, please… it is possible to overreact to real, significant problems, you know.
Although meth is a problem, that doesn’t automatically justify every measure someone suggests to cut down on meth production. There will always be a market for illegal drugs, and if we’re going to have a neverending war against them, we have to be damn careful about what we give up because of it, because we’ll never get any of it back. I’d rather see that effort devoted to harm reduction measures which might cut the market out from under those dealers, instead of restricting a common medication just because it’s used in meth labs.
Well, I gree with that, except the part about “never getting any of it back”–laws can, and indeed have been, repealed. That’s just a silly statement on your part. Of course, your larger point is perfectly valid, but as I said, I have no issue with making pseudoephedrine-containing medications more difficult to obtain, or making them unavailable altogether, particularly if it is replaced with something equally safe and effective, but useless for meth production. Clearly, you do, however, so we shall have to agree to disagree.
Isolating pseud from Ny-Quil with all of the other adulterants ie)DXM is next to impossible. Meth can’t be made with Ny-Quil by your average mullet-head. Generic otc’s in pill form containing nothing but pseud and assorted gakks are the problem. But hey, if banning everything containing pseud makes you feel like a good soldier in the war…
Note: This was a joke. You should not mix NyQuil with scotch. It is extraordinarily foolish, and dangerous, and I think maybe illegal, plus it takes like butt and gives you a hangover.
Oh, yeah, I love me some 'Quil. I need to buy some, since what we have at the house isn’t making my cold do much more than snicker in derision. I’m not getting the green, though. Red all the way.
If this is true, I do not understand how Nyquil lasted long enough to have a new flavor. I grew up on the red and had never even tried the green until my local dealer–er, I mean grocery store–had no red of any kind. Not even the generic kind. (Damn cold season. Everyone else should suffer. Not me!)
So I thought, oh-so-naively, “How bad can it be?”
Oh. My. God.
I gagged so hard I almost threw up, and in trying to prevent said hurling-fest, I aggravated my cough til that made me want to throw up, too. And the vomit probably would’ve tasted better than the slimy coating of that horrendous green bile coating my mouth.
Audrey: Thou has not tasted “Death-On-A-Spoon” until One experiances… Buckley’s Cough Syryp. A Canadian Concoction, that is, by far,
the nastiest thing I ever hope to have in my mouth. With a motto of
“Tastes Terrible, but it works!”. :eek:
Green is the original flavor. I remember the days before they had the red. I drank it because most cold remedies taste vile to me, and this stuff may have tasted vile, but it worked. I just have to make sure I take it not long before going to bed because I will wind up horizontal not long after I take it and it may as well be on a soft surface. There is one curious thing about NyQuil and it’s ilk: not long after taking it, before it takes effect, I find I need to go to the bathroom. Then I fall asleep or pass out.
Audrey Levins, I’ve actually been using the generic version of NyQuil because I’m cheap. While I haven’t bought it recently, I’ve always found it in the grocery store or drug store next to the NyQuil itself. It works just as well. Hope this helps.
Your mother’s right. When I get a cold, I head to a local Mexican restaurant infamous for chili that’s almost painfully hot. The stuff burns the germs right out of me!
