{"id":921,"date":"2006-04-20T13:01:22","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T18:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/someday-only-meth-users-wont-be-congested\/"},"modified":"2006-04-20T13:01:22","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T18:01:22","slug":"someday-only-meth-users-wont-be-congested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/someday-only-meth-users-wont-be-congested","title":{"rendered":"Someday, only meth users won&#8217;t be congested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The true cost of the War on Drugs was the 3 minutes of my life that were wasted in CVS on my lunch break when I bought some decongestant.<\/p>\n<p>I had to bring a product-card to the front checkout so they could give me the decongestant. Then was told I <em>had to<\/em> sign a registry book with my name, address, time of purchase, and quantity of pseudoephedrine.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m afraid that &#8220;Ambulatory P. Groin&#8221; of &#8220;1313 Mockingbird Ln.&#8221; might find himself getting a visit from the DEA sometime soon. He probably shouldn&#8217;t have bought &#8220;one pound&#8221; of the product, but hey.<\/p>\n<p><em>(I wonder what expression the clerk would have had if I walked up with 200 product-cards and dumped them on the counter. I swear: when I get over this headcold, I oughtta start a meth lab. This is worse than those Truth commericals.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The true cost of the War on Drugs was the 3 minutes of my life that were wasted in CVS on my lunch break when I bought some decongestant. I had to bring a product-card to the front checkout so they could give me the decongestant. Then was told I had to sign a registry &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/someday-only-meth-users-wont-be-congested\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Someday, only meth users won&#8217;t be congested&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmaceuticals","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-eR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2578,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-oct-3-2008","url_meta":{"origin":921,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Oct. 3, 2008","author":"Gil","date":"October 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Are you ready for some linkage? 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