i genuinely hope this means folks in the US might be on the path to being able to get actually good decongestants like pseudoephedrine again (lol get h*cked phenylepherine)

i can't go to hell - i'm all out of vacation days. i watch space rocks and yell at computers for my day job. probably too old for any of this
i think i might be burned out on internet social. it's hard to keep doing it. it's hard to even maintain the amount of attention i'm already giving it
i am the cause of most of my own problems
furthermore, capitalism must be destroyed
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i genuinely hope this means folks in the US might be on the path to being able to get actually good decongestants like pseudoephedrine again (lol get h*cked phenylepherine)
IIRC you can still get pseudoephedrine here, you just need permission from like 3 different people. I don't think they'll ever let you just buy it over the counter again.
You need a prescription, you need authorization for controlled substances (usually comes with the prescription but sometimes you gotta jump through more hoops) and THEN the pharmacist has to decide you don't look sketchy.
the funniest thing is that the stuff seemingly works if you take it as a nasal spray, but people would rather take it in inert tablet form so that's what the manufacturers did