Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

September 30, 2009

Last March, Sally Harpold of Clinton, Indiana bought a box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband. A few days later, Mrs. Harpold bought a box of Mucinex-D cold medicine for her daughter, a mother of triplets.

In July, the police knocked on Mrs. Harpold?s door at daybreak and arrested her for buying more than three grams of pseudoephedrine over a seven-day period.

Like most states, Indiana severely restricts the sale of legal, over-the-counter cold medicines that contain ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, which can be used to make methamphetamine. Purchases of those products are carefully logged, and customers must show a photo ID. This absurd policy is mandated by a 2005 amendment to the so-called USA PATRIOT act.

As a result, legal cold remedies are rationed, and innocent grandmothers are sent to jail ? and meth continues to be widely available everywhere, including prison. And this is typical of the antic foolishness called the ?war on drugs.?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.