State Law Would Require ID to Buy Baking Soda
Saturday April 7, 2007
A Missouri state legislator has introduced a bill that would require shoppers in the "Show Me" state to show somebody their photo-ID when buying baking soda. Yes, plain old baking soda. Customers in Missouri must already show photo-ID to buy cold medications containing pseudoephedrine, because they can be used to make methamphetamine. And baking soda, says state Rep. Talibdin El-Amin in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is often used in the production of crack cocaine. "We have crack cocaine running rampant in our neighborhoods," El-Amin told the Post-Dispatch. "Don't get me wrong, meth needs to be tackled. But anything that calls attention and brings the crack cocaine problem to the forefront is a positive step."
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Comments
That is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard in my life. You aren’t going to stop them from making drugs by making people show ID to buy something that is an ingredient in most every kitchen cabinet in the world. We not only use baking soda in cooking but for cleaning and even for making bath bombs.
For soap makers it’s like pulling teeth these days just to get the lye we need to make it and now you are taking our baking soda too?
Stop punishing the innocent and actually work on the criminals for a change!