Really tired of the war on some drugs.

I really hate the way it's made felons out of those who live their lives in blindingly awful pain, and gotten desperate enough to seek remediation, legal or not. 

And then, once the federal government gets them slapped in prison, the government realizes "Oops.  That person isn't an addict or a dealer.  Let's fit them with a morphine drip so that they're not in pain.  But only while they're in prison."

One of the most effective painkillers out there is marijuana.  Most effective, and least likely to have really bad side effects.  And since it's classed on the same level as cocaine and heroin, it's illegal to even study to figure out how the hell it works.

I also really hate the sanctions that are aimed at meth.  One of the absolute most effective over-the-counter decongestants is one of the ingredients in meth.  So, the powers that be insist that none of us need to have easy access to something that makes daily life livable in the spring. 

I hate to say it, but collective punishment doesn't work.  All it does is give the illusion that the government is doing something that should, in theory, work to thin out the supply of meth.

Only...it doesn't.  Some towns go as far as requiring a prescription for it.  Which only works if all of the stores in all of the bedroom communities and surrounding areas do likewise--which they haven't in my area.  What banning the over-the-counter sale is actually doing, then, is causing those who live and shop in the large town to take their money elsewhere...and buy the stock that was planned around the normal sales to the residents of a given bedroom community.  Causes a temporary shortage, but then things go back to an equilibrium.

This law was passed in Joplin before the tornado that ate half the town in 2011.  And there was a sharp uptick of meth cooks being caught, not because they increased in numbers, but because they had to move into the FEMA trailer parks, which were so crowded that it was impossible to hide that activity. 

Collective punishment doesn't work.  Prohibition doesn't work.

Actually, I take the first part back.  Collective punishment does work, but only if you remove protection from those guilty of the crime and permit those who get punished for no reason to beat the ever-livin' shit out of them. 

Sounds like a good solution for the meth problem.