Looked into it. This isn’t what I thought it was. They aren’t looking to ban sudafed where the active ingredient is pseudoephedrine, which is the stuff that actually works that you have to scan your drivers license at the pharmacy counter to buy, it’s the over the counter kind where the active ingredient is phenylephrine which, the FDA unfortunately is right, literally doesn’t work for shit. My wife and I learned this a long time ago. If you can buy it without a drivers license honestly I couldn’t care less if they ban it because I honestly don’t know what it even does. But the good stuff that you need a drivers license to buy apparently isn’t going anywhere so we can probably put our pitchforks down on this particular issue at least.
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Some drugs DON'T work, or don't work well. I suspect Phenylephrine is in that category.
In a free market, this information would be available and probably highlighted by interested parties; customers would begin shifting to more effective alternatives.
In a tyranny, the non- or less-effective drug can get forcibly banned. Of course, in a tyranny even HIGHLY EFFECTIVE and EXTREMELY SAFE drugs can be banned.
See the difference?
Totally agreed.