7 face prison for buying sinus medicine

Here we go again, peeps.

The Patriot Act has once again opted to cake itself all over the nation's face. In eastern Iowa, 7 people now face a year in prison and a $1,500 fine for the "crime" of buying too much cold or allergy medicine - under an unconstitutional Iowa law similar to that which was incorporated into the Patriot Act renewal.

The legal limit is only 7.5 grams in a 30-day period.

Do they even make boxes of medicine that are as small as 7.5 grams?

Notice also that authorities tried to make it sound like a colossal amount of the drug by describing it as 7,500 milligrams instead of 7.5 grams.

Seven more inmates in an already crowded prison system (despite being probably innocent of illicit drug involvement). Seven more lives destroyed. Seven more drug war statistics.

(Source: http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=229090)