The very idea that you should need special permission from some form of officialdom for having access to anything that is very widely useful but in all but a very, very small subset of select cases involving very, very few people who harm only themselves with its misuse is what's genuinely disgusting here.

The vast majority of adults should be able to live in a world where they're not treated like 10-year-old children for seeking a bit of modest pain relief for very common ailments.