Meanwhile back at the "War on Drugs" front:Girl Handing Out Cough Drops Accused Of Selling Drugs

[Are_grits_groceries]

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. -- A Clay County father said he wants answers after his daughter and two other kids at her elementary school were accused of selling drugs and facing possible punishment all over some Vitamin C drops.
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"She saw me with the cough drops out and I guess she saw me give it to one of my friends, and then like, 'Oh, I see this good business going on around you,'" Khalin said. "She said, 'You're selling drugs.' (I said) 'No I'm not.'"

The drugs the girl allegedly had were the Halls Defense Vitamin C cough drops, which her father had put in her backpack weeks ago to take to school when the child was getting over a cold.
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According to the student handbook for Clay County Schools, "If a student must take a prescription or over-the-counter medication during school hours, it must be received and stored in the original container, and be labeled with the student's name, current date, prescription dosage, frequency of administration and physician's name."

The question remains whether Halls Defense qualifies as an over-the-counter drug. Although many cough drops contain menthol as an active ingredient, the brand that Khalin had did not contain menthol.

After examining the ingredients in the drops Khalin had, Channel 4 reporter Diane Cho said the ingredients in the cough drops were near exactly the same as what's in a Lifesafers candy.


http://www.news4jax.com/news/18295358/detail.html#story

I can hear the debate now........

[Solly Mack]

1. Damn

my head hurts

[Horse with no Name]

2. Ridiculous.n/t

[Romulox]

3. It makes as much sense to lock people up for Halls

as it does to lock them up for marijuana.

[Fumesucker]

4. The drug war has its defenders on DU..

There have been some rather acrimonious threads about it in the last day or two.

[Are_grits_groceries]

6. I'm not gonna throw down over cough drops.

Especially if they don't have menthol.

[nebenaube]

9. yes, there are some ignorant people here... n/t

[Greyhound]

5. Why do such an inordinate number of "tales of sheer idiocy" come out of FL? n/t

[jbane]

10. You are so right.

When my wife and I are watching the news and they have a teaser line about something stupid before cutting to commercial we allways say it's got to be in Fla.

[peace frog]

11. You don't live here, do you?

Thank the living gods if you don't. Florida is one f*cked up state, and I say that as a native who has lived here my whole life.

[Greyhound]

16. No, Atlanta is as close as I came, but did a few contracts there over the years.

It seems to have become far worse since then, and even then I turned down several offers to move there. I remember once when I was driving into the office (near Disney World) where I was working and passed five different "law enforcement" agencies working the highway on about a ten mile trip from my hotel.

Scary crazy.:scared::crazy:

[timtom]

25. I'm with you.

Things are much better in Arkansas, West Virginia, Alabama...

[TK421]

17. How much time do you have? n/t

[mikelgb]

7. I say 6mos to 3yrs, $40,000 bail

lets make and example out of her

[we can do it]

8. wtf

[TechBear_Seattle]

12. "Near exactly the same as what's in a Lifesafers candy."

Which means that the school will soon declare that Life Savers are OTC meds.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. That's not funny.

My brother died from a lifesafers overdose.

[TechBear_Seattle]

15. The tragedy of being addicted to fruity flavors, alas. n/t

[Cassandra]

20. They're not?

They are called LIFE SAVERS, after all. ;-)

[TechBear_Seattle]

22. They are a "sucrose delivery system," after all. n/t

[progressoid]

13. It starts with menthol and ends with Meth.

Just say NO to Halls kids!

[Greyhound]

21. Mother's milk is a gateway drug! n/t

[TechBear_Seattle]

23. Sadly, it sometimes is

Many drugs are expressed through breast milk. If the mother uses while she is nursing, her child is using, too. It is even possible for a baby to be born with a physical addiction to crack, heroin and meth.

[rug]

18. I hope they don't check the mallomars for caffeine.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

19. Good.

Menthol is a dangerous carcinogenic and all the shills for the Big Pharma corporations forcing our children to buy addictive cough drops in this thread can go straight to hell!

[tanyev]

24. Mmmm. Hall's Defense with Vitamin C.

That's some good stuff.