Cold Remedies Likely to be Locked Up

Many popular cold remedies and allergy medicine will be locked up behind the counter stores and customers will only be able to purchase by showing a photo ID and sign a logbook. This is under new provision of Congress to eliminate any illegal drugs such as methamphetamine.

A number of states have already moved to curb the sale of cold pills containing pseudoephedrine, the ingredient used to cook meth in makeshift labs. The federal law would prevent meth makers from moving to states with weaker laws.

Stores would be required to keep medicines like Sudafed and Nyquil behind the counter and consumers would be limited to 3.6 grams, or about 120 pills, per day and 9 grams, or about 300 pills, a month. Purchasers would also need to show a photo ID and sign a logbook.

Those limits target meth dealers who buy large quantities of the drugs to extract the pseudoephedrine.

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