more overreaching

December 6th, 2007 Opinion, Vermont

Since we’re on the subject of what our legislators might be doing to improve our lives, I suspect we will have the “prescription” committee appointed this session. Apparently the “war on drugs” has taken a new turn – a war on your drugs. The Vermont State Police have decided that they will get all pharmacy records for your prescriptions just to be sure they know what each and everyone of us is all about. So if you happen to have a few scripts for Percocet under your name, the next time you get stopped for that burned out tail light, they’ll type in your driver ID on their mobile computer and viola ! – they may have – legally – probable cause to take some blood just to make sure you’re not under the “influence”. Of course, since you and me have nothing to hide, this shouldn’t bother any of us. We all take our pain killers legally, right?

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