Posted by yxibow on January 23, 2007, at 13:11:28
In reply to Re: Sudafed et al., posted by Declan on January 23, 2007, at 12:57:25
> No, I'm in Australia Yxi. After a car was discovered by accident going over the Sydney Harbour Bridge with a boot full of Sudafed and after big drums of pseudoephedrine went missing, a decision was made to phase it out.
> In the Northern Territory some Aboriginal people sniff petrol and they have made a special form of it that it is apparently impossible to use that way.
Good grief. Yeah, I know there are a fair bit of restrictions and lack of avalability of some things that even the US hasn't banned in Australia -- a more strong central government like Canada but perhaps more so ? Anyhow, that's for the politics board I guess. So did they replace it with phenylephrine or are sinus sufferers just having to get scripts ?
Huffing gas and any substance has been time immemorial for just about anything volatile, so I find it hard to see how you can block everything. I mean glues have been changed here too but if you're really stupid you can cruise the aisles of that certain big box hardware store here and find volatiles that would be rather nasty.
-- Jay
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