A grandmother in Indiana has been arrested for purchasing cold medicine. We can all sleep more safely now that this hardened criminal has been taught a lesson. The Terre Haute News reports:
When Sally Harpold bought cold medicine for her family back in March, she never dreamed that four months later she would end up in handcuffs. Now, Harpold is trying to clear her name of criminal charges, and she is speaking out in hopes that a law will change so others won’t endure the same embarrassment she still is facing. …Harpold is a grandmother of triplets who bought one box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband at a Rockville pharmacy. Less than seven days later, she bought a box of Mucinex-D cold medicine for her adult daughter at a Clinton pharmacy, thereby purchasing 3.6 grams total of pseudoephedrine in a week’s time. Those two purchases put her in violation of Indiana law 35-48-4-14.7, which restricts the sale of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, or PSE, products to no more than 3.0 grams within any seven-day period. When the police came knocking at the door of Harpold’s Parke County residence on July 30, she was arrested on a Vermillion County warrant for a class-C misdemeanor, which carries a sentence of up to 60 days in jail and up to a $500 fine.
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I say legalize them all. A war on drugs is pointless to wage. People who do them won’t stop just because a law prohibits it. The only thing that will happen is people who do drugs will give the government the middle finger. One detail that perplexes me is how our elected leaders have admitted to using these drugs, however, they hypocritically want to punish the average citizen who does the same thing. Marijauna, methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine-even if they remain illegal, people who actively use them will still find a way to get their hands on them.
IT’S FOR THE MONEY $500.00 PLUS…PLUS…PLUS …BAIL… COURT…
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I don’t know if I disclose a horrible secret, or break the omerta, or give the feds a pretext to scorch the whole Utah, but ephedra grows freely there.
Now be careful with ephedra. Don’t chew more than an inch of the twig at a time, or else it’ll do something to your immune system, I don’t know.
But it boosts your strength (and helps you hike in those hills).
I even brought some over to California (this statement may be false and cannot be used against me because it is a joke… hey feds)
Stone her!!!!!!! (with some very kind sativa, of course).
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you are joking right?!