I don’t take stimulants that often, I’ve got a box of Bronkaid from 2017 that I just finished off.
for a little while, ephedrine was completely illegal, but by the time I got to college, it had been re-legalized but it could only be sold as an asthma/bronchitis remedy. it was controlled the same way as pseudoephedrine, except that it could not be sold as a single preparation, it had to have at least one other ingredient. BronkAid and Primatene Tablets were ephedrine, and guaifenesin. went to buy a new box today, and lo & behold, it’s pure ephedrine!
I am happy about this, but can’t seem to find when the change occurred. apparently the DEA is constantly screwing around with pseudoephedrine rules so the search results are pretty clogged up.
from the garbled results I’m getting, it looks like maybe ephedrine was Schedule V for a little while, and maybe now it isn’t? I didn’t even know there was a schedule v
edit - disregard this update, it’s from Canada update: I finally figured it out. it looks like this changed literally one month ago lol
That’s a .ca link, so Canada. Since your subject says USA, it’s going to be different still. Here in the USA, it’s largely state specific. Here in Washington state we can buy pseudoephedrine behind the counter (from the pharmacy). Inhaled epinephrine (Primatene) went OTC (Over the Counter) a good number of years ago, I want to say 2017 or so back when I was in retail pharmacy.
lol ty