I believe that having some OTC cold meds in the home FAK is a good idea. Mostly because when the cold hits, I usually don't what to have to go out, I want to stay home and be sick.

My local Rite-Aid in California now swipes the mag stripe on my driver's license. I asked why, and was told that it limits my purchase to one per day chain-wide. I don't know for sure, but I have to believe that information is available to the DEA, if they wanted to see it.

So, it seems that we have prescription drugs, true OTC unregulated-to-purchase drugs, and something in-between.

I was discussing this with one of our drug task force guys. He told me that meth is still at the same street price, so this "proceedure" is probably not working to limit meth production.