Cops Become Drugstore Cowboys in Vermont; 4th Amendment Officially Dead

• Cops Become Drugstore Cowboys in Vermont; 4th Amendment Officially Dead

But when state police start entering pharmacies to get full prescribing records of anyone taking a Schedule II controlled substance like Oxycontin-- as the Green Mountain Daily blog [hat tip to Daily Kos] says is now happening in Vermont-- perhaps they'll wake up and smell the sickly odor of the death of the 4th Amendment. In the eyes of the police, every pain patient -- and consider that some 30 percent of the population suffers some form of chronic pain -- is junky slime.