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Re:CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they'... by technothrasher on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @08:04PM (#38007470)
> until the government decided to control access to it because of fears of meth.

Passed as part of the Patriot Act re-authorization bill in 2005, because everybody knows terrorists and pseudoephedrine go hand in hand.

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Re:CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they'... by justinjlynn on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @08:49PM (#38007789)
If I recall correctly, it was the resulting cash flow that needed to be laundered, and the potential of those operations to eventually result in the funding of terrorism, that was the alleged concern.
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