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Tennessee Pharmacies Sling Potent Horse Paste

Four years ago, Tennessee became the first state to allow adults to buy the antiparasitic drug ivermectin from a pharmacy without first seeing a doctor. Pharmacies can use a pre-written, blanket prescription to sell to just about anyone who walks through their doors. The drug is now marketed and sold across the state in roadside shops and small-town strip malls with little oversight from health authorities. Highway billboards advertise ivermectin as "Available Without a Prescription in Tennessee!" while dozens of pharmacies offer highly concentrated pills, sometimes at 10 or 20 times the potency of a standard tablet. Some pharmacy websites now offer the drug as a treatment for COVID-19, "long haul vax symptoms," diabetes, or cancer -- despite no evidence of its effectiveness for those purposes -- while the new law largely gives pharmacists immunity from lawsuits or professional sanctions related to ivermectin.

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I bet dollars to donuts that the Republicans who first started this idiocy about horse paste during COVID owns tons of stock in the companies making Ivermectin and will now be cashing in even more.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-18 12:44 AM | Reply

It's Tennessee. Consider the source.

U.S. Current Trend: Bills Provide Immunity to Drivers Who Hit Protesters
Published: September 2021

In May 2021, local activist Justin Jones gave impassioned testimony before the Tennessee legislature. He described how "already you have cars at every protest revving their engines. . . . This bill is a license to hunt and a license to kill." The proposed bill, Tennessee's HB 513, would provide both civil and criminal immunity for drivers if they hit protesters with their vehicle while exercising "due care," even if the protester was only blocking the sidewalk.

#2 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-06-18 07:01 AM | Reply

FTA:

>>The rhetorical and symbolic value of driver liability bills can be seen in the response on social media when they are introduced. Users, including members of law enforcement, circulate jokes, memes, and slogans about hitting protesters with vehicles. A Sheriff's Deputy in Florida posted a meme depicting a semitruck smeared with blood with the caption "DROVE THROUGH ARIZONA/DIDN'T SEE ANY PROTESTERS." Longtime Seattle detective Mike Brown was formally fired in February 2021 after it came to light that he had made multiple social media posts mocking and endorsing violence against racial justice protesters. Among the posts was a meme depicting a vehicle striking a person with the words "ALL LIVES SPLATTER" that Brown posted on the same day that two protesters were hit, one fatally, on Interstate 5 in Seattle.

#3 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-06-18 07:04 AM | Reply

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