direneed,

I get really mad here in Oz about that. I try to just go into the chemist/pharmacy to buy pseudoephedrine tablets for my nasal congestion. First the government made a rule that they couldn't sell the cheaper packets of 64 anymore so then I started having to buy them in smaller lots for a higher relative price per tablet. Then they made a rule that the chemist has to check my ID and write down my driver's licence number. Then, the last time I went in to buy some, it coincidentally happened to be the day after one of those pseudo-factual, self-styled "hard-hitting, truth-seeking" type non-news shows had shown a packet of the brand which my specialist recommended to me and which I have been buying for years, and showed it with home-chemistry equipment used to make drugs.

I get so sick of being looked at as if I am a closet drug-addict everytime I go in and buy a packet. I also get so sick of having to spend more money for no reason, on a product I have a legitimate use for, to compensate for drug-takers who are stuffing up my life and my quality of health, and for what??

Sorry, rant over. But this has been p***ing me off for years.

Helen