The Greenwood Commonwealth on allowing the sale of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine cold and sinus medications without a prescription: There are two ways, one correct and one not, to look at the Mississippi Legislature’s decision to resume allowing the sale of certain cold and sinus medications without a prescription. A bill that won almost unanimous support in both the House and Senate will, assuming Gov. Tate Reeves signs the legislation, begin in 2022 a two-year period in which ephedrine and pseudoephedrine can be sold without a prescription in products such as Sudafed and Claritin-D. It won’t quite be an over-the-counter sale because a national computer system must first verify that the customer isn’t making excessive purchases. But it clearly will be less of a nuisance.