Pseudoephedrine is another victim of the "war on drugs." It works really well as a decongestant, but purchases are tracked, pills are expensive, and you can't keep a stockpile like you might for some other medicine.
The outrage should be that anyone who wants the safe and effective option is treated as a potential meth manufacturer.
Sure, there were reasons to make it more difficult to obtain a certain type of drug. Fine. There are obviously economic effects of these regulations on the manufacturers. Somehow these companies found a loophole to fill the gap by making it easy to buy useless bullshit.
This is massive egg on the FDA's face and I'm really curious how this happened and what's going to be done to prevent it happening again.
I've bought pseudo for years, and to this day a box is around 5 bucks. Maybe that would get expensive if one were to use them frequently, but they're not meant to be a replacement for allergy medication or whatever.
And that's for 2 sheets of 12 hour.
Pseudoephedrine doesn't produce as pronounced a "high," but it definitely is noticeably psychoactive. It doesn't just clear up your congestion, it also makes you feel better and boosts your energy. It really is a fine drug for masking cold and flu symptoms.