Yes, unfortunately it has come to this. The game is up. They, meaning big Brother, the Feds, "they" are winning, and the pain patients, us, the individuals who are trying to take care of ourselves (a good all-American trait that used to be admired), are the losers.

Nothing we can do about it now, and it's going to get worse. All the OP's are going to follow more strict guidelines in order to comply with harsher laws, or just to keep off the radar of the DEA.

In this current political climate, and most notably since Ashcroft Inc and his Christian-corporate cronies wrote their own laws on the heels of the attacks in NY, we have all become quiet, docile, compliant. No one protested when they took our freedoms away one by one. OP's changing policies is just one step in the curbing of freedoms. Strictly speaking, we're not even allowed to buy aspirin from Canada anymore.
Our best hope is to try and regain the sympathy of our Doctors again, if we don't want to suffer. The days of being worry free and getting relief in the mail are over. We'll still find the odd source here and there, but there won't be anything consistent.

What we need, and deserve, is our freedom to medicate ourselves. To be allowed the responsiblity of monitoring our pain and medicating it. Maybe it will happen, who knows. I just read in the news that my state has just been elected to become a "free state" in the next few years. Maybe they will take the idea of freedom seriously. I hope so..
Be pain-free!

~r