If you hire bright people and tell them that their careers are dependant on writing regulations, they will write regulations.  Doesn't matter if they will actually accomplish anything but everyone can go home with a warm fuzzy feeling that they have 'done something'.  This is the kind of magical thinking that went into creating the gun registry - penalize, regulate, and hurt the law abiding people that need these drugs in the hope that the illegal industry will follow suit.  Useless.