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Literally from today's news: an alcohol raid. So I guess technically correct it's nothing like alcohol. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pittsburgh/news/panther-pit

Literally from today's news: an alcohol raid. So I guess technically correct it's nothing like alcohol. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pittsburgh/news/panther-pit-padlocked-oakland/ https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pittsburgh/news/panther-pit-padl...

ibejoeb 2y ago
Here's a guy who narrowly avoided a raid for taking Claritin-D, so I guess your point stands: https://www.register-herald.com/news/nplex-tracking-system-has-pros-cons-as-police-tool-against/article_f536b27f-8326-5faf-9e30-e99c238bdaea.html https://www.register-herald.com/news/nplex-tracking-system-h... > Police also can look for people who might have purchased pseudoephedrine around the same time as the suspect, as a way to identify friends and conspirators. ffs. is this what we want?
- tptacek 2y ago
  This appears to be a story about a guy who hit the limit in his state, with a reporter talking to an enforcement agent explaining why he looked nothing like an offender, followed by a story about a busted meth lab and their purchasing patterns in the database. It doesn't look like anybody narrowly avoided anything, and it's from 2013.
  - ibejoeb 2y ago
    I object to the government pulling a medication report containing the name, date of birth, address, and ID number for me and the people in the pharmacy around the same time as me, and then setting a "watch" on me. from the article: > he showed up one day early to purchase his two-week supply. Good thing he didn't show up in the next county one day early. Maybe that would've been enough for Goff to act. The article also points out that pse remains non-prescription because if it were to become rx-only, the government would be prohibited from monitoring it. Here I was just thinking that prescription exists for the health and safety of the patient... This whole thing is gross. What's the significance of 2013?
    - tptacek 2y ago
      "Medication report" sure does make it sound a lot scarier than an indication of whether you had allergies. You get that there are already detailed, retained records of your actually-sensitive prescriptions, right?
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ibejoeb 2y ago

Here's a guy who narrowly avoided a raid for taking Claritin-D, so I guess your point stands: https://www.register-herald.com/news/nplex-tracking-system-has-pros-cons-as-police-tool-against/article_f536b27f-8326-5faf-9e30-e99c238bdaea.html https://www.register-herald.com/news/nplex-tracking-system-h... > Police also can look for people who might have purchased pseudoephedrine around the same time as the suspect, as a way to identify friends and conspirators. ffs. is this what we want?

tptacek 2y ago
This appears to be a story about a guy who hit the limit in his state, with a reporter talking to an enforcement agent explaining why he looked nothing like an offender, followed by a story about a busted meth lab and their purchasing patterns in the database. It doesn't look like anybody narrowly avoided anything, and it's from 2013.
- ibejoeb 2y ago
  I object to the government pulling a medication report containing the name, date of birth, address, and ID number for me and the people in the pharmacy around the same time as me, and then setting a "watch" on me. from the article: > he showed up one day early to purchase his two-week supply. Good thing he didn't show up in the next county one day early. Maybe that would've been enough for Goff to act. The article also points out that pse remains non-prescription because if it were to become rx-only, the government would be prohibited from monitoring it. Here I was just thinking that prescription exists for the health and safety of the patient... This whole thing is gross. What's the significance of 2013?
  - tptacek 2y ago
    "Medication report" sure does make it sound a lot scarier than an indication of whether you had allergies. You get that there are already detailed, retained records of your actually-sensitive prescriptions, right?
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