Coming soon to neighborhood pharmacies in Fairfax County, Va.: undercover police officers interested in buying ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, found in cold and allergy medications and a key ingredient in manufacturing methamphetamine.
The undercover purchases will be part of an initiative launched by the organized crime and narcotics division to enforce a law that went into effect Saturday in Virginia limiting sales to no more than 3.6 grams of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine a day for any person.