Man learns about sinus medicine law the hard way

The War on Drugs makes criminals out of everyone, it seems.

In Florence, Alabama, authorities just arrested 63 people for the "crime" of buying too much over-the-counter cold and allergy medicine (which was only recently made illegal).

All 63 were charged with second-degree manufacturing of a controlled substance, which - according to the local paper - "in essence means they were in possession of ingredients used in the meth-making process."

You can't make this stuff up, people. It used to be that manufacturing a controlled substance meant you had to sort of, like, make the substance. That's what manufacturing means. But I guess now possessing one ingredient is considered the same as making the substance, even if you had no intent to manufacture it.

Is that fascist or what? That's like charging someone for making moonshine because they possess water.

This binge of arrests is especially ludicrous because the town probably isn't even big enough to support 63 meth labs - so there's no way that more than a handful of the 63 arrestees had anything to do with meth.

In fact, a man who purchased the over-the-counter medicine for his allergies (which is the product's intended purpose) found himself among these 63 even though he didn't even know about the new laws.

The prosecutor now says that his office is looking into the possibility that some of the 63 had no intent on making meth. Gee, ya think?

I guess it's about time authorities figure out that not everyone nabbed under the failed War on Drugs has something to do with illicit substances. Of course they knew that already but that never stopped the drug war from expanding.