&gt; I also don&#x27;t think you have much personal experience people who have been addicted to opiates.<p>I said as much. Which is a good enough reason to be suspicious of prohibition for me.<p>And to be clear, I&#x27;d find it very difficult to believe anyone gets a two week supply of opiates after surgery and goes all Reefer Madness after following the directions on the prescription. You&#x27;re talking about people who abuse the drug. Most people who drink don&#x27;t become alcoholics.<p>Now maybe you also want to abolish alcohol, in that case I just don&#x27;t see any common ground.<p>I&#x27;ve tried pot for a migraine before and it only made me more nauseous. I&#x27;d be willing to try it for other types of pain but it certainly wouldn&#x27;t be my first choice. I find the side effects mostly unpleasant.<p>I find opiates far more effective at relieving pain (tooth, back, eye pain after PRK surgery, mouth surgery after a car accident), with the fewest side effects. (I&#x27;ve only had light nausea once.) Running out of medication at the end of a course is a non-issue (I actually almost never finish it), and I notice lower levels of impairment than even a single beer.<p>But I don&#x27;t abuse it. I take the larger dosage (500 vs 325? I forget exactly), in a maximum of 4 hour intervals (IIRC), and usually whatever the reason for taking them has subsided to the point ibuprofen alone works fine after about 48-hours.<p>And you would suggest that should end, without a viable alternative, because some other people abuse it? That seems like a very puritanical position to me.