Cold Medicine Backlash Week: Coming Soon

Seems to me if you're going to require people to get a prescription for cold medicine, you might as well ban cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine outright. How many people are going to go to a doctor -- and incur the cost and lost work time -- just to pick up a package of Sudafed? If you're going to raise the bar that high, might as well raise it all the way.