Idiot senator wants federal Sudafed prescription law

From the "Now you know why I switched to the Greens" department...

This story shows again that once a drug warrior proposal takes hold, it's almost impossible these days to keep it from spreading.

DLC Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon now wants a federal law modeled after the ineffective Oregon law that requires a prescription just to buy Sudafed.

Wyden is against single payer health care, yet he supports this shit - which will just make it harder for people to receive health care. Now I know why real Democrats have said for years that Wyden isn't worth a damn: It's because he doesn't understand the Constitution for one thing.

It's also because he doesn't understand why pseudoephedrine is over-the-counter in the first place. The idea of prescriptions for some drugs was never meant to combat secondary abuses, because that would just inconvenience people who need the drug the most.

OK, we get it, Ron: The 2 major parties are identical. You don't have to keep proving it to us.

In the meantime, hopefully some states will opt out of this bill if it passes. Oregon ignored the law that says Sudafed is over-the-counter, so why can't states opt out of a law that says it's by prescription?

Fuck this stupid party!