Hi gore

AFAIK you can still get OTC products in the UK that contain morphine and codeine. You would have to get them from a registered pharmacist though, so they are sort of "controlled" as in "adults only"...............a bit like alcohol, solvents and the like.

You actually may have inherited this tolerance from your mother. My best friend's father was nearly killed by a small dose of penicillin, yet it is absolutely useless to my friend........he may as well eat candy.

Pot (cannabis) is an interesting one. It used to be sold as a medication and is actually being grown under licence over here for pharmaceutical research purposes at the moment. It basically got banned as a knee jerk political reaction to "recreational drugs" but it looks as if it could be back on the shelves fairly shortly.

I am sure that we will use the traditional British compromise of renaming it to allow legislative duality.............like we call legal heroin "diamorphine"