By Ron Avidan

The FDA has spoken. Their final ruling has come out. No sooner than Illinois, New York and California ban ephedra in their states, causing massive importation of ephedra from other states for desperate ephedra users, the United States, or the FDA has issued their ruling saying that legal ephedra sales will be illegal starting around April 12th. That means that if you see any bottles, whereas in a pill form or liquid form after that date, you are committing a crime if you purchase it. Of course, I am not sure if the law says that using the product after April 12th is ok or not. I can't see how they would enforce that one. So as they did in California, thousand upon thousand of people are scouring the stores to get as much ephedra as possible before it all goes away. 
Wow! Amazing how so much blatant yelling and screaming over 155 deaths over 12 years that might be related to ephedra can cause. Now I am not saying that I sympathize with them, but has anyone proven yet that ephedra is the direct cause of this. It hasn't with the Steve Belcher case, it hasn't with many other cases. Still, this herb will be gone. Oh well… 

One wonders why this herb and not alcohol, tobacco, and even aspirin or other over the counter pills which kill hundreds more each year. Perhaps it is because of the lobbying power in Congress, or the massive amount of taxes they generate, or give to the politicians. Too bad the little supplement industry can't compete against the big pharmaceuticals in this department.

From Getbig.com