Elvis, I'm sorry to hear about what happened to your girlfriend. I wish her the best recovery and hope that no bad or permanent damage has been done.
I don't know the whole story of what happened with her ephedra usage, no one but your girlfriend,her family, and yourself probably really know what the status of her health was the day she collapsed.
Assuming that a routine check out would have labeled her completely healthy the day she collapsed and she did not ignore the label, that really sucks, but shit happens. People die or run into health problems all the time because of the legality of swimming pools, cars, knives,aspirin,box cutters, sports, alcohol, smoking,etc. Imagine how many healthy people there would be if processed foods were outlawed.
Anyway, regarding ephedra products,There are many warnings on the label. I believe that xenadrine even says that the product may cause heart attack and strokes. I'm also assuming she knew that ephedra has a bad rap since your her boyfriend and you hang around these boards and also either of you probably heard about ephedra on the news?
So why do you want ephedra to be banned after it has helped countless numbers of people? If it is banned, then acquiring it would probably be a crime. Doctors will not prescribe it to 95% of the people who ask, just like they don't prescribe PPA or phentermine who request. The end result will be more ruined lives, more criminals,people acquiring blackmarket powders taking unknown doses, possible contimination, possible increased crime due to blackmarket business transactions, more hatred toward the US gov't. I even hear that somewhere they are even requiring the labels to print a 1800 number to report side effects. So most people, if not all, know they are not fucking with placebo powder.