Also, at a state level, you might explore how pain management is dealt with under state law. In New Mexico for instance, if you show up at a hospital and tell them you’re in unbearable pain, they have to treat you for it with drugs, based on your word. In New Mex under the medical practice act, under-treatment is grounds for unprofessional conduct by a physician and the courts have upheld it. Something to look into.

Plus, you could take almost any single reason for ending the WOD, examine it by itself and arrive at some reasonable conclusion that while there is a demonstrable negation of freedom involved, it is more or less balanced by positive outcomes such a restriction makes possible.

However, when you start to look at the negations of freedom in their totality, and to weigh them against the alleged positives in their totality, neither do the restrictions seem reasonable nor do the particular outcomes appear to the terribly useful.

Besides, you and I both know that the government “fix” for this would be to simply mandate that pharmacies remain open 24 hrs., which would raise prices, and likely cause fewer pharmacies to open.