http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2007/01/17/ah-the-nanny-state/ The personal web site of Brendon J. Wilson, a software developer, technologist, and entrepreneur living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:19:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2007/01/17/ah-the-nanny-state/comment-page-1/#comment-27355 Brendon J. Wilson Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:45:27 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2007/01/17/ah-the-nanny-state/#comment-27355 And it gets better - I went to Long's yesterday to pick up Ashley more DayQuil and got asked for ID! This, despite DayQuil's major active ingredient being the replacement that Sudafed is using to replace pseudoephedrine. For God's sake, it's beginning to be illegal to have a cold. What's next? Am I going to need to present ID to buy cheese in a can because kids have been known to get high off of the aerosol (i.e. whippets)? And it gets better – I went to Long’s yesterday to pick up Ashley more DayQuil and got asked for ID! This, despite DayQuil’s major active ingredient being the replacement that Sudafed is using to replace pseudoephedrine. For God’s sake, it’s beginning to be illegal to have a cold. What’s next? Am I going to need to present ID to buy cheese in a can because kids have been known to get high off of the aerosol (i.e. whippets)?

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