Georgia may require prescription for over-the-counter drug

Over-the-counter means you're supposed to be able to get a drug sort of like, uh, over the counter.

In the Legislative Crap-Up for the state of Georgia, however, woes loom. Right-wing State Sen. John Douglas (R, naturally) is introducing a bill to require a prescription for over-the-counter cold and allergy medicine that contains pseudoephedrine. He provided the typical drug warrior excuse.

Uh, John? These aren't prescription drugs. These are over-the-counter.

Georgia wouldn't be alone, after Oregon passed a similar law. (Mexico recently outlawed these over-the-counter drugs completely after pressure from Bush.)

Some drugs are prescription drugs. But this concept wasn't invented to combat secondary abuses of a drug (despite Douglas's excuse). Further, in the U.S., the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act defines what drugs are by prescription. Georgia and Oregon don't get to decide that this law doesn't apply.

Meanwhile, the Peachtree State is also about to face new limits on workers' rights to form unions, at the hands of other proposed legislation that's sailing through.

(Source: http://newmedia.covnews.com/news/article/5419)