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Methapplication of the Law
Indiana grandmother busted under anti-meth law:
Sally Harpold is a grandmother of triplets who bought one box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband at a Rockville pharmacy. Less than seven days later, she bought a box of Mucinex-D cold medicine for her adult daughter at a Clinton pharmacy, thereby purchasing 3.6 grams total of pseudoephedrine in a week’s time.
Those two purchases put her in violation of Indiana law 35-48-4-14.7, which restricts the sale of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, or PSE, products to no more than 3.0 grams within any seven-day period.
By law, Harpold could get up to 60 days in jail and up to a $500 fine. As written, the law makes no distinction about why you bought the medicine or your intent.
Just as with any law, the public has the responsibility to know what is legal and what is not, and ignorance of the law is no excuse, the prosecutor said.
“I’m simply enforcing the law as it was written,” (prosecutor Nina) Alexander said.
Well, at least when the government is in charge of all health care, she won’t have a choice of family member for whom to purchase medicine.
