That's great for you, Waybread. I hope that if your arthritis gets worse, or if something else happens, that Canada's chill effect has eased up a bit, so that if you need pain killers, you can get them.
You prefer that your taxes don't go to other people's medical care. I guess you like them going to more police, more armies, more prisons. Which is okay, I won't change your mind on this.
If the state wanted to 'protect' us from drugs, might they regulate things like production, instead, to make sure that a drug is what it's sold as? Or should we keep continuing the spiral of drug wars, death, and harm?
Prohibition is not the answer. Unless, of course, it's all working well as is. Not seeing that where I live.