Today I was carded for... ALLERGY MEDICINE?

Well gone are the days that one can walk into a pharmacy and purchase some good old nasal decongestant and not be accused of being a crystal meth addict. Today, my allergies were at their worst... I was doing my laundry and I just couldn't stop sneezing and my eyes were itchy and watery and I couldn't handle it. So I left the Bloomfield laundromat and strolled down to my local Eckerd Pharmacy. I picked up a single box of the generic form of Claritin-D, which has the lortadine allergy medicine and the decongestant psuedophedrine in it. This box has five, count them twice, FIVE pills in it. Now, I may be wrong here, but if I was going to start my own meth lab, I might need for than FIVE pills of pseudophedrine to do it. But oh well, that's besides the point. The nice teenager working at the register politely told me that I needed photo identification to purchase my allergy medicine. I was taken a-back. I really couldn't believe it. I was like.. "Umm do you have be a certain age?" She told me no, and went on to say that everyone who purchases anything containing Pseudophedrine, the main ingrediant in meth, needed photo identification so they could log it. I couldn't believe me ears.. LOG IT???? So now all of my allgergy medicine purchases are being tracked by the federal government and I presume that if I purchase to much, some sort of agency will come after me. Never mind that I can walk right up the street and purchase crack from one of the many dealers on the block or solicit sex from a local prostitute, but the more important thing is that the government needs to know where, when and how much Clariton-D I have purchased. This is CRAZY. Now I understand the otherside of the coin. There are countless people, probably some in my own neighborhood, that are addicted meth users, brewing their own home-made stash in their basement and this is a plague that needs to be quashed. But there HAS to be a better way of doing it, other than inconviencing the consumer and the poor phamarcy clerk who apparently gets screamed, cursed and swore at all day long for this new federal regulation. Perhaps I shall write a letter of my discontent with this new regulation to my local legistator. I'm sure I'll get a response.