.....here i can walk in to a store buy 3 or 4 bottles of max strenght cough (if i still did it i could buy four or five boxes of coricidin too) without being questioned.....just depeneds on where you live....and dxm is illegal to use to get high....any drug on the market is illegal to use against the instructions on the bottle/box.....but they can't reallly prove anything unless they see you chug it or your dumb enough to admit itto a law enforcement officer and helll even in some states admitting isn't even enough to be arrested.....