crazy point rules

[Coddfish]

I just moved back to my home state and they apparently changed the law about buying points. I went to a wal-mart in the capital city and asked to buy a bag of isulin syringes yada yada, and the chick tells me they can't sell them inside the city limits because of a newish municipal ordinance. At all. Like no prescription or nothin'. Maybe she was bs'n me??

Outside, in the suburbs, you can buy them all day long w/o prescriptions, and as I live in a suburb it was no sweat. The wal marts here seem to only sell them singly for 13 cents a piece, which I thought was nice. BUUUTTT, WTF?? Anyone ever heard of not being able to buy points AT ALL?? Seems weird.

BTW, they were for giving allergy shots to my dog. True story.

[kdreimiller]

There is another active thread about this. I have the same problem in Baltimore. MD is supposed to be a no script state, but for some reason, probably b/c of Baltimore's junkie problem, some pharmacies won't sell to you without an RX or diabetic card.

The pharmacy I go to in the business district, a Rite Aid I believe, doesnt even blink when I ask for them, but when i go to other areas that are blighted by drugs, they ask for a card or script, even when I'm dressing dapper.

[shaunclo]

regardless if its legal to buy rigs in your state or not, it is up to the pharmacist.......unfortunately

[Coddfish]

I wan't really clear I guess. She made it out to be that they did not sell insulin syringes. Period. Not with a script and not without it. I have never heard of this, and I don't know if the ordinance she referred to was maybe only local Wal-marts, or every local pharmacy, or something else altogether. I did a quick search on the web and came up with nothing, but I will try again when I have more time. I gather nobody has heard of not being able to buy points, period. I think she was an assistant and not the pharmer.

[vanilla_mlkshake2007]

I myself have never heard of such a law what will happen to all the diabetics?And the Hep C people on that program they use to help them.
I just came back from K-Mart the only store where I can get rigs that are either sold quickly,stored right or something because these are the only points that I can hit myself with on a lucky day.I boughnt a box of 100 too.That's 9 less times I will have to go in a store and get "the I know you are a junky look".I know they know I am not diabetic but I say they are for my great-aunt or whatever
No Codd I definately have never heard of this ever,but I have been refused by pharmasists who just denied me because they have the right.That's happened twice at the same pharmacy.

[shaunclo]

Thats craziness Codd-my-man, Im thinking she was a pharmacy-noob and had no idea what she was talkign about. I mean for even a diabetic to come into there WITH their point-prescription and still get denied doesnt make any sense whatsoever.

If they are not selling them period, well that mean that they dont carry them either......right? And you know they do carry them, so that contradicts themselves right there.

[candy]

Well, here in Los Angeles you cannot buy syringes. If you have a prescription for them you can, but without a script, you can't purchase them. Of course there is Needle Exchange here in L.A., but if you should run out and there is no exchange that day, you need to wait for NE or use what you have.
I believe in some states where the sale of needles is legal, it is up to the pharmacists discretion to sell them or not.

If the law states it is legal to sell syringes then no pharmacist regardless of his own moral judgments should be able to pick and choose whom he wants to sell needles to.

You know they sell alcohol without any thought to anyone legal to buy it and thousands die each year of alcohol related deaths. Whether it be a drunk driver who kills some family on their way home from the church picnic or some alcoholic who dies from liver failure, they continue to sell it. Hell, in every commercial for booze on T.V. or for some ad in a magazine, you see a bunch of 20 -somethings, tan and gorgeous romping on the beach somewhere. But, they don't show 20 years down the line....Some bloated broad with a couple of kids drinking generic label Vodka for breakfast.

I'm not making fun of anyone or being judgmental....Just trying to point out that alcohol is just as dangerous as anything else out there. If your an alcoholic, "Ah, poor guy!" But if your a junky,"Your a menace to society!"

I just see this everyday and I still can't get used to it!

[shaunclo]

Well, here in Los Angeles you cannot buy syringes. If you have a prescription for them you can, but without a script, you can't purchase them.

Candy, I know I am pretty close to your general area and the city I am in allows me to purchase points. If for some reason the needle exchange is closed and you need to get some, go to some surrounding city's and it is very simple to pick up a box.

I have only ever been able to buy a box before though, never just by the bag.

[JunkYardSaint]

We have the same stupid laws here in Texas, and I agree with Candy, it's the biggest bunch of bullshit; they SAY that selling needles legally will encourage drug use, but it's simply not true. Selling needles legally to anyone who asked for them would only save lives - potentially LOTS of lives. Selling alcohol will not save one single life. It's ludicrous.

[Woods]

A pharmacist might have the legal right with refuse to sell syringes, just like they may have the legal right to refuse to sell the morning after pill, but in neither case do they have the moral or ethical right to do so.

Any pharmacist who refuses to do his or her job should be fired immediately, without any severance, money owed, or anything like that. They should also be beaten on the way out, then denied painkillers. Yea, crawl home on your fucking belly with two broken arms and two broken legs, oh, you want some mo0rphine? I’m sorry, that goes against my moral value system, jerkass.” I’m a bad man.

[Opuim4TheMasses]

What about people low on the B vitimins? Cant you buy the 'kits' with b-12 and a syringe? in a pinch it COULD work....

Here in IN its hard to get em too without answering 500 questions, a background check, and your first born.....
and a NE? not here, because there ARE no junkies HERE....so they say.....

[antony]

A pharmacist might have the legal right with refuse to sell syringes, just like they may have the legal right to refuse to sell the morning after pill, but in neither case do they have the moral or ethical right to do so.

Any pharmacist who refuses to do his or her job should be fired immediately, without any severance, money owed, or anything like that. They should also be beaten on the way out, then denied painkillers. Yea, crawl home on your fucking belly with two broken arms and two broken legs, oh, you want some mo0rphine? I’m sorry, that goes against my moral value system, jerkass.” I’m a bad man.


They don't have the legal right to deny morning after pills. Nor should they have the legal right to NOT dispense shit that has nothing to do with them.

I understand when it comes to high scheduled medications, but they might as well go work at the pharmacy in the Vatican, where they only dispense condoms to Cardinals.

Pricks