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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Controlled Substances: Marijuana, Sudafed, and Garbage Bags

This past fall I needed to go buy Sudafed for my cold. It was either that or walk around feeling like my teeth were going to fly out of my mouth any moment and zoom across the room like a button popping off a pair of pants that are too tight. Apparently it had been a long time since I had bought Sudafed because I was surprised to learn it is now a controlled substance. I needed to go up to the pharmacy counter and show ID. I believe I may have also had to sign my life away. I know I had to sign something.

Don't get me wrong. I am not knocking the importance of these new laws. It isn't a significant inconvenience to keep an easily misused drug off of the street. Tonight though I discovered drugs aren't the only things sold in a pharmacy that create a risk for our society. Apparently so do garbage bags. That's right, garbage bags. We live in a town in which sanitation pickup is paid for by requiring residents to place refuse in specially designated town garbage bags. The Big Giraffe asked me to pick on a roll of garbage bags at the grocery store tonight. He's the one who usually buys them. I thought I could find them in the aisle with the other garbage bags, but Big Giraffe told me that I would need to ask a cashier for them. They're contraband! Alright, the town didn't really say that, but that's how they're treated.

Sure enough at the grocery store tonight I had to ask the cashier who then pulled them out from a drawer behind the counter. Unlike the Sudafed I didn't have to show ID or sign my life away. I'm sure that's coming though. The town will regulate controlled substances as strongly as necessary to keep garbage off the streets.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Garbage bags are obviously dangerous.

Labels: Humor (at least Attempted)

posted by Alex Elliot @ 7:50 PM 1 comments

1 Comments:

At 12/22/2009 6:36 AM, Goofball said…

in Belgium most drugs are over the counter drugs that need a prescription....one of the (multiple) reasons why we are high consumers of doctor visits.

some drugs can be bought freely and others can be bought without prescription but then the (mandatory) medical insurance doesn't pay part of the bill so the price difference makes you go to the doctor first.

what is sudafed anyway? never heard of it.

Oh and is there towns where you can put out garbage for free???
We have bags for green composable garbage, for plastic containers & bottles and cans and the most expensive bags are for the non recycled garbage. (carton is free and glass is free to put out). Garbage bags are very very expensive in Belgium...which makes us the best recyclers in the world.

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