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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You can still get NAC otc.
I never thought of it that way. I did think that Hartgaard (ivermectin dog wormer) being made prescription-only in California but they didn't do that for the horse version was very strange. But NAC was always available without interruption at my local pharmacy or the vitamin shoppe chain. Makes sense.
The mark up on Hartgaard is insanity. $5 of Ivermectin sold for hundreds of dollars.
I think whoever decided these things probably concluded that "horse paste" was a little too out of reach for most folks, either in fact or in practice. So they left it alone. But then enough people went to Tractor Supply for "horse paste" that Tractor Supply started asking buyers for photo proof of the buyer's horse (not joking).