What do you think about CVS drug store in the US requiring ID to buy acetone nail polish remover?

Proof-of-age ID for purchase of solvents has been a legal requirement in the UK for years. It would only harm CVS’s business if the majority of their sales are to minors, which I seriously doubt.

@downtide I guess their parents are more likely to pick up the nail polish remover during a regular trip to the market, I hadn’t thought of that. Most teenage girls are painting their nails much before the age of 18 though.

I did notice recently that some stores now sell larger bottles of straight acetone, I wonder if this has anything to do with it? I was told to buy it when I used a hard to remove nail polish. Maybe the larger bottle is popular because of drugs? I didn’t even know it was used for making drugs until a day ago when someone told me about the CVS policy.

I have no problem with even this minimal regulation of Acetone. It’s only mildly toxic, but is highly volatile and very flammable.

In the idiocracy which we now all live, CVS has gotta to what they gotta do.

P.S. My mother-in-law is 90, and she thinks the store is called ‘VCR”.
“I need to pick up my precscriptions. Can one of you please drive me to VCR ?”

Generally, I don’t mind, but American laws have a way of getting out of control. Meth is the same excuse they used to reduce the availability of lye, and now I can’t find anywhere in my area to purchase it without a business license (to be able to shop in janitor supply shops). No homemade soap for me.

…and has it reduced the meth consumption? Not that I’ve seen. Neither did hiding Sudafed behind the pharmacy counter.

You know what would fight meth addiction? Stop jailing users and start offering rehab. Offer low-line distributors an opportunity to learn a trade and get out of the lifestyle. Shocking, I know, but much more effective than hiding nail polish remover from 13 year olds.

It seems silly to me. Acetone comes in 8–12 oz bottles. You can go to the hardware store and get it by the gallon. Does it make sense to card people in one place and not the other?

But consider your average store – drug store, hardware, even Target or K-mart. Thousands of items in any given store could be used to make explosives, or mix drugs, or do some nefarious thing or another. Just yesterday, I was at Home Depot and bought some paint stripper/paint remover. That’s some high percentage of alcohol and is explosive. They didn’t card me on the way out.

These sort of gestures are silly. Eventually they will be worried about every single thing you buy and some computer will store that information. Then we will have completed the state control of our lives in a way that the NSA can only dream of.

This is a dumb idea – it is theater, and accomplished nothing at all.

By the way, I was at just at Home Depot (for another reason) – they have gallon tins of acetone for $4.97. No identification required.

So not only is it asinine to require ID at a CVS, but a person who buys nail polish remover at CVS is an idiot for paying about 2000% more for the same substance (except in a pretty pink bottle)

The main reason solvents are restricted in the UK isn’t so much about meth production, it’s more to do with glue sniffing

Aside from meth acetone can be used to extract certain compounds from substances.

That said IMO the whole thing is retarded for the reasons illustrated by @elbanditoroso.

@Seek_Kolinahr that makes me so sad that you can’t make soap. :(

Since I live in the meth capital of the US, and none of us have to show an id to buy fingernail polish remover, yes, I do think it’s a little dumb.

We do have several CVS stores here, but they aren’t very popular (the service sucks, trust me.) Now make it happen at Walmart, Target & Walgreens, and you may do something to slow it down.