Dextromethorphan is the only otc cough medicine that works and pretty much the only prescription stuff that works is opiate based. Of course both are regulated.
We as a people need to become even more ungovernable, we need to be the opposite of German and be the most annoying red blooded American caricatures we can be.
Don't join the beehives, they're not worth it! My corollary to Franklin: those who would give up essential sovereignty to gain inclusion into a society deserve and shall receive neither.