Patriot Act Includes Crackdown on Meth Use

The AP reports:

Suffer from springtime allergies? You could be among the first affected by the USA Patriot Act poised for final congressional passage this week.

Besides terrorism, the bill takes aim at the production of methamphetamine, a highly addictive drug that cannot be manufactured without a key ingredient of everyday cold and allergy medicines. The bill would impose new limits next month for how much relief a person can buy over the counter.

And beginning Sept. 30, it'll take a flash of ID to buy that medication.

The legislation sponsored by Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. and Jim Talent, R-Mo., would blanket the nation with one policy that would put medicines containing pseudoephedrine behind the counter and out of the reach of meth cooks.

Remember this is the same Senator Feinstein who's supposedly upset about government wiretapping but she wants to moniter you if you have a cold.As Glenn Reynolds would say this is mission creep.In the name of national security Big Brother wants to monitor everything you do.How long can it be before Senator Feinstein supports legislation where obese people have to sign a clipboard before buying Oreo cookies?? Doesn't national security demand that fat people shouldn't eat so much??? The warfare state is really the nanny state.