Comments on: Carrying your medications around in a substitute container

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 20:02:40 +0000

This is about making common practices illegal. It’s not only ridiculous, but it also erodes our freedoms. When the law is made complex or petty enough to allow for the arrest of people who are doing nothing to harm other people, then we need to rethink the law.

By: MattS

MattS — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:09:55 +0000

In reply to Thomas Meehan.

Note: this restriction is about prescription medications only, not OTC drugs. It’s not about safety, and it’s not primarily about the police being able to identify the drugs, it’s about the police being able to verify that you have a valid prescription for a controlled substance.

P.S. I agree that the rule is a bit silly.

By: Boblipton

Boblipton — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:28:43 +0000

“Exchanging small objects with another individual”? Is this like all the butterfingers who used to drop marijuana in the 1960s?

Bob

By: Thomas Meehan

Thomas Meehan — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 06:03:39 +0000

This is a another example of how out law enforcement guidelines fly in the face of our everyday practice. Every drug store in America sells pill holders in which traveling citizens carry their everyday medications.

Police are trained in the identification of illegal substances and counterfeit drugs. Everyone knows that pills are carried around by citizens outside their original containers. The rub seems to be that the police want to have the option of arresting people they think rate “dirty.” Well, that’s no longer reasonable.