On cue, here’s the local Knight Ridder outlet’s approving take on the war on cold medicine. Notice the lack of critical examination given official claims about meth and pseudoephedrine. It simply is not true that drug companies have a replacement for pseudoephedrine in the wings that is as effective as pseudoephedrine in combating the sniffles.
As for the bit about there being “no good alternative to tight controls,” maybe if you willfully swallow the propaganda campaign coming out of state AG offices across the country. And can we officially start referring to Ray Cooper as a candidate for governor to help readers put his grandstanding in some perspective?
The added burden North Carolina residents face as a result of this hysterical overreaction is a Superstition Tax imposed by the political class, nothing less.
