If just anybody can buy cold remedies, then the terrorists have won

Carpundit discovers first hand the ramifications of a new provision of the Patriot Act that requires pharmacies to check IDs of people buying cold remedies that contain chemicals that could be used to crank out meth:

A young man wanted to buy some cold medication at a CVS in Boston. There ensued a long discussion among the young man and two CVS employees, neither of whom was certain whether the medication required ID for purchase. So they read the label very carefully, trying to find the restricted ingredient. But they didn't know its name. Their ignorance of the law and the medicine neither deterred their efforts nor improved their literacy. After several minutes of this, the customer asked why they needed ID in the first place. They didn't know. ...