What other activities do folks do while "medicated"? Softball, chess, tennis, swimming, boating, bike riding, etc etc.

Does it stand to reason if you take ibuprofen or any other med on the job you are somehow less competent or unsafe?

This is a huge area to set a precident;to me it seems a discrimination under
a disabilites rule. If I lived in a med state I'd push it to the Federal level and make them prove the harm they claim. The courts need to be forced into action.

Pilots die almost daily making common sense errors like flying into bad weather and running out of fuel. Post mortems show no traces of drugs we call it pilot error and thats it. Hopefully we learn from the mistake but we don't pretend something that did not happen has happened.

The demonization needs to stop at ALL LEVELS. Period.