Stop the sale of pseudoephedrine, including medicines that contain pseudoephedrine to those for whom it is illegal to possess this drug due to prior convictions. Let the electronic database put a red flag up to keep pharmacist from selling these to those that should not have authorization to possess these types of medications for the benefit of the person with the prior convictions and also for public safety that the drug is not put into the wrong hands.
I am in a current legal battle at the moment having to go to court and face what could be a felony if found guilty for purchasing an off-brand cold medicine Wal-phran I purchased at my local Walgreens. I have prior convictions for running a meth lab in which I did almost a total of 10 yearrs. When I was raided they found a empty pickle jar and"no drugs". I paid my debt to society along with my family who also suffered for my mistakes. Back in December 2014, my mother who has ongoing medical conditions got the flu and her being elder she asked me to get her something from our local pharmacy. I was aware of signs in the pharmacy that warned of your name being submitted in a electronic database and no person was authorized to the purchase of no more than 3 boxes of pseudoephedrine per month but I was unfamiliar with the law that had went into effect approximately a year prior of not permitting to sell to someone that had my prior convictions. Well earlier in the month my home got raided in which they found sandwich bags--clean ones unused, food scales that weigh pounds (they were weight watchers scales), but no drugs. When I read the warrant I found they issued it because I had a warrant in the county where my mother lives for purchasing her medicine. One box I have bought in ten years and wouldn't have if I knew I wasn't allowed. I thought it was illegal for the sale too. I thought If I was doing wrong I should be protected in the system some way or another. My mother who still has the medicine a box that had a total of 20 pills and 16 still in the box. Now I'm looking at a felony conviction in which I am guilty of and wish I had known I was doing wrong. My home was raided for a possible meth lab in which there was not one and they tore my home up for the third time when I have already been punished 10 yrs and learned my lesson and then some. Now with prior convictions along with this felony I can been maxed out in years for something I did to be help to my mother. I want to keep others from running into this problem like I have. If everything goes electronically in a database why shouldn't these databases put up a red flag and not allow for such sale to those that shouldn't be permitted those sales. People that max out on the number of boxes that they can get a month are shown a red flag if they can not buy anymore, and 3 boxes is more than anyone should need in a month so why do they not get a notice not permitting them the sales. Thank you for hearing and taking my concern into consideration.
