It’s disgusting that psychiatric medication is lumped in with opiates by the DEA and subject to many of the same hamfisted policies.
You want to get real angry? Cannabis and psilocybin are both schedule I drugs while cocaine is schedule II. I know cocaine has medical uses and is unfairly maligned, but still.
Comparing one’s pain to another is meaningless, if the pain of both can be treated.
Pain isn’t necessary. It is enforced.