remove codeine from easy access, increase illicit opiate market and thus crime and all the other unwanted shit. fucking dumbcunt idea. goddamn.
what would the government rather? people occaisonally walking into a chemist to buy a pack of pills that they can use to relax at home later, or have those same people going out onto streets or into shady houses to cop street drugs that they can go home and use, and risk being poisoned by some unknown cut, or getting ripped off and then getting angry and possibly violent?
at least while codeine is in chemists they can tax it, god, where there is demand there shall be a market; removing products from otc is just fucking silly.
surely ruddy is smarter then that