Cities moving ahead with ordinances restricting pseudoephedrine sales

Okmulgee’s city council passed an ordinance Tuesday night restricting sales of the tablet form of pseudoephedrine at the city’s four pharmacies. Customers seeking the most popular and available forms of the allergy drug will need a doctor’s prescription in the future. In Pryor, Mayor Jimmy Tramel had planned to hold off on a similar ordinance, pending a ruling by the attorney general’s office on whether cities have the authority to restrict drug sales. But after Pryor police made several arrests in a pseudoephedrine sting operation Friday, Tramel says he’s moving ahead with the ordinance. The Pryor city council will consider it Aug. 2. “We decided to go ahead and do it and see what happens,” Tramel said. “Other towns are doing it, so we’re going to go ahead and do it.” If the attorney general determines later that cities don’t have the authority to restrict drug sales, they will deal with that issue then, he said. Okmulgee is the fifth city to restricted the sale of pseudoephedrine. Holdenville, Chouteau, Wagoner and McAlester also have passed the restriction. Copyright 2011 World Publishing Co. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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