Speaking of the compounding regulations, I ran into some folks from Wisconsin at an election night gathering earlier this evening and they told me that the former governor and his flunkies who are still in the State Senate and General Assembly and regulatory agencies and other state-sponsored terrorist organisations there took the state from being almost like another planet in a good way vis-à-vis pain and narcotics (on a level with Scandinavia, National Geographic wrote in their March 1985 opium article) to banning kratom, trying to do it to tianeptine, doing everything else the rehab gangsters asked and more -- and apparently lowered the boom on compounding pharmacies there as well . . . that fellow was a Republican and the new Democratic governor these folks called a somnambulist. Several of them were chronic pain people and/or had relatives at home with cancer.
"You folks want to stay here?" I asked them
-- It looks as if we may have to . . .
"It all works and it's all good"
-- Will whatever coalition comes out of this make a difference?
"No, they all know better."
Jesus Christ, I remember driving up to Wisconsin once a month or so with some folks and signing for codeine and dihydrocodeine elixirs and even an early form of Tussionex for spiritual and quasi-religious use and probably 35 per cent of the people at the counters knew it. There was a professor who used to get enough Hycodan to share some with us. Those were the days. There was a time in the middle a few years ago before the prescription monitoring database that these small independent pharmacies did a brisk business in people without coughs who were treating pain with codeine. I'm sure that damn database has saved no lives, prevented no addiction but has really increased the tips that doctors and pharmacists and cops and narcotic inspectors make and the success rate with asking customers for blowjobs. They seem to pick up that benzodiazepine customers are the most likely to comply for some reason. Probably because withdrawal from them can kill someone.
One thing that helps with bandwagon these gangster drive is that it is certainly bi-partisan and not even Libertarians have stepped up to the plate. There are people who blame Trump, others blame Obama, others Bush XLIII, others Bill Clinton, and both parties at the state and local level. Distract people and try to dry up the supply more by blaming "Big Pharma" -- by the way, I ask those arseholes, who do you think makes your Thorazine? It doesn't grow on trees. They were thinking Tramadol may, (
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/synthetic-drug-found-in-nature/6593.article) but I know that's not their cup of tea, if only because it is a narcotic and an especially good one for promoting sociability and sex.