unfortunately what you have in Europe today is 28 “little guys” all spying on each other and reporting what they find to the next country along or DE/UK (which report back to the NSA).
The only thing that keeps some semblance of freedom is that DE still has a lot of Angst over bad decisions made 70-75 years ago following an economic crisis but DE was one of the first European nations to pass this sort of catch-all law (and was particularly quick to make all the NPS controlled substances). Ironically the only thing that might stop this madness may well be another Cold War as it would mean the EU cannot leave it up to the “Soviets” to do the pharm research and then nick all their best brains/intellectual property like they did in the 20th century.
Even then it would most likely only occur because the authorities are too distracted dealing with real threats to enforce the extra laws they have made.
During WW II all drugs control laws in Europe were effectively suspended; they were only reintroduced rather reluctantly from the 1950s onwards because public healthcare services had to deal with the fallout of addictions on top of treating all the long term physical and mental harm that war causes and the USA were kicking up a fuss about the same “loose prescription” that is rife in America today.
