Questionable legality...

[matrixrefugee]

I went looking at the local pharmacy for kava-kava, which like valerian root, is supposed to be good for depression. Two very nice, helpful clerks came to my aid as I hunted through the nine bzillion different vitamin and herb supplements... and lo and behold, I spotted three bottles of 5-HTP. I bought one, and I'm planning to buy the other two tomorrow, thus stock-piling it while I work on finding the kava-kava as well as looking into some of the other suggestions you folks sent. Just took a caplet and I'm feeling more like myself already.

This sure makes up for cutting my finger at work on someone's dumb paper bags. Unfortunately, it has to be my righrt index finger that;s now bandaged, which is making my typing even more erratic than usual. Ah well, the bandages'll be off in a day or two.

Comments

[nightofcydonia.livejournal.com]

As far as you're concerned, there's nothing questionable about it (I don't think so anyway). If something's supposed to be taken off the shelves, then it's not meant to be sold. That doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with buying it. (Yes, I am aware that my logic is rather odd.)
~Weaver

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Eh, I was just being a ridiculous in that entry title. The original title was something like, "Trafficking in illegal substances", but I thought that was taking the joke a little too far.

:: As if on cue, "Tony's Theme" from the 1983 movie "Scarface" comes around on Windows Media Player:: Oh great, now I'm fighting off plotbunnies for a "Scarface" parody, with 5-HTP trafficking instead of cocaine trafficking. :: Laughs::

[nightofcydonia.livejournal.com]

*grins* Hey, I've read stories about weirder things getting trafficked (there was the one kids story where the substance in question was chocolate *shrugs*).
~Weaver

[(Anonymous)]

Unless it was actively recalled (for safety reasons, product tampering or whatever), then I doubt it's illegal to buy something that's still on the shelf– it falls under the store's liability, not the consumer's. I'd recommend trying to find an actual herb/health supplement/'hippy' store (nothing against hippies– I was born in a commune myself) to get more, I'm sure they'd know how to do it.
~Ruby