Tue, Sep-16-03, 20:27
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Midas in reverse
Posts: 744
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 260/231/165
BF:~31%/~26%/<17%
Progress: 31%
Location: Southern Utah
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I'd also like to add that if you're sensitive to ephedrine even "recommended dosages" can cause big problems. How do you know if you're sensitive to it or not? You don't...until you take it.
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The same can be said for aspirin, penicillin, or any other drug or food! Ephedrine is no more safe, and no less safe either, than any other drugs that can kill in high doses (aspirin, alcohol, cimetidine, phenylpropanolamine...). None of them are on prescription. Why is there such a penchant in this country for avoiding the responsibility of looking out for ourselves? Do we really need laws to protect us from our own stupidity? (Mandatory helmet and seatbelt laws, steroids, yada, yada, 200+ stickers on ladders these days reminding the stupid consumer not to use ladders while intoxicated, etc.) Making ephedrine illegal w/o a prescription accomplishes nothing positive--after all, Phen/Fen was only available on prescription--and that didn't protect the consumer at all, now did it??
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