People don't need a prescription for it. It has virtually no side effects, which means it has no dropout rate, which in turn means people will keep coming back for more. In Germany, where St. John's Wort is prescribed and has been studied extensively, the herbal supplement is doled out four times more often than Zoloft. Finally, St. John's Wort has never been described as being effective for major depression. This is old news.
Most people take it for mild depression, for which studies have proven it works.
A number of folks have written in to take issue with Molly Ivins and to complain that some of us are not supporting George W. Bush as president. They demand elimination of Molly from the paper, and a flogging for the rest of us unrepentant sinners who see that our currently unelected president is a loser, and far more conservative than his campaign. So take your president and his right-wing buddies. Here we go again. Another plan to get rid of our historic Memorial Stadium.