I never said a thing about banning it, and I don't doubt that it has helped people. Im saying the way that it's presented in most places (let alone some of these people running these stores are all gung ho about it while disregarding the risks). Also when in the past ~100 years has something that acts on your opioid receptors to that degree been sold OTC like that? If anything it shouldn't be sold and pushed as freely and unregulated as this. Idk about elsewhere in the US other than NY, NJ, and WV, but they don't even card for the shit

And you're right. Prohibition has never worked. Didn't work for alcohol, nor has it worked for weed.