I don't dismiss CBD or any particular drug and I wouldn't. I was onlybaddressing the difficulty doctors are having now in legitimately prescribing any drugs that 'might' (by the government) be considered possibly habit-forming. I had mycoplasma pneumonia and whopping cough and, in order to prescribe 48 hours worth of hydrocodone, the doctor's office manager had to file paperwork to 4 different government websites. And the prescription could not be called into the pharmacy. It had to be printed and taken, by patient no less, to the pharmacy. And we had to try 11 different pharmacies to find one that had it in stick. So, there I was, with a fever of 104, taking my feverish self to a pharmacy that did not have a drive-through window, exposing everyone to the germs I was carrying, just to be able to get a cough-suppressant so I could maybe sleep through the night. I had been sent to the ER earlier in the day but the hospital lost the admitting papers and sent me home, with a then-temperature if 104.5.

The state's prescription laws made unnecessary work for the physicians, intolerable inconvenience for patients and loved ones and have so far not dented the illicit drug trade. I feel for people in chronic pain whose access to life-saving pain help is being restricted by stupid laws passed by those not suffering themselves. I read a comment once wherein a physician referred to 'the tyranny of the healthy' who don't always understand the lives of those who aren't so lucky. I think that policy makers and politicians can be guilty of that myopia.