Definitely, it's just like all of the ridiculous limitations on what foods you can buy with food stamps. People receiving methadone replacement therapy are not even allowed to use weed in weed legal states. They're drug tested regularly and a positive hit for weed or any other recreational drug (besides alcohol, surprisingly) is grounds for removal from the program. I don't understand how they came to the conclusion that's okay. Even if you accept their framing that weed is a dangerous gateway drug that will lead to relapse, in what world is taking away their methadone a solution to this? They believe your weed use has put you in danger of relapse, so they take away the primary treatment preventing you from relapsing?

Worse, they require you show up every single day to take your dose under supervision. Only after building up several months of trust will they allow you to take enough home with you for weekends, but that's it. Now, with the stigma opioid addiction carries, the opening of a methadone clinic is often met with fierce resistance from local chuds and libs alike. So you are very unlikely to live near one. The probably long commute to the clinic means this might be taking up several hours of your day every single day. If you don't have a job with flexible enough hours for this then you're just fucked, especially since this treatment is expensive, and it's likely your insurance won't cover it.

They say this is to prevent diversion and illegal sale. But the assumption that policy makers have made here is that it is preferable for someone's potentially deadly opioid addiction to go untreated than it is for someone to get high on illegally sold methadone. The priorities of this sick, twisted country, am I right?