Arkansas residents will soon be able to buy the anti-parasitic medication ivermectin without a doctor’s prescription after the state’s governor enacted a new bill earlier this week.
On Tuesday, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-Ark.) signed into law SB189, a bill “To authorize ivermectin for human use to be sold without a prescription or consultation with a healthcare professional,” which states the medicine is “suitable for human use [and] may be sold or purchased as an over-the-counter medication in this state without a prescription or consultation with a healthcare professional.”
Ivermectin proponent Brock Thompson, who proposed the legislation to bill author Sen. Alan Clark, (R-Lonsdale), celebrated the bill’s passage saying it enabled freedom of medical choice for Arkansans.
“I am happy that Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed SB189 giving the people the choice to use Ivermectin an old drug for themselves,” Brock said, according to KATV. “It has been finding new life over the past few years and this will help continue the conversation about medical freedoms. We don’t know what the future holds for the human drug, but to me it validates the doctors that were demonized for using it.”
Sen. Alan Clark, the bill’s lead sponsor, also touted the new law, saying, “I am glad the people brought me a good idea, the legislature embraced it enthusiastically with a bipartisan vote, the governor signed it.”
The drug, widely used in Africa to treat parasitic infections like river blindness and other conditions primarily linked to unclean drinking water and poor sanitation, was heavily demonized by the leftist establishment during the Covid pandemic, as many used it as part of alternative treatment protocols.
KARK reports: “The law goes into effect 90 days after the legislature adjourns.”
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