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How does making it available by prescription mean that it can't be used to treat PTSD?
Putting up a rent-seeking middleman between a person and a drug makes the drug harder to obtain. It’s also insulting. The idea that someone else, some officious busybody, gets to dictate what you do with your body has no basis in any coherent moral system ever concocted. You are entitled to regulate drugs, to demand that the label is “correct.” You are not entitled to stop anyone from ingesting them. That is a profound violation of human autonomy.
You call it insulting, I call it saving the lives of children and avoiding date rape. Seems like most people are on my side.
On top of that, the whole antibiotic resistance thing I mentioned elsewhere.
This makes no sense. I’m not allowed to ingest medicine because you intend to date rape people?
As for antibiotic resistance — sure! If there’s a medicine whose consumption on the individual level has some sort of effect on others, then you get to regulate it. My ingestion of anti-depressants has zero impact on anybody except me. Face it, a thousand years from now an enlightened humanity will look back on things like our bizarre corporate prescription system and think we were unethical baboons.
You are absolutely allowed- with a doctor's prescription.
And since most people agree with that stance, I guess you're surrounded by evil.
We had to wait for people like you to die out to end slavery and now we will wait again to end the corporate prescription racket.
What do you hope to achieve by comparing me to someone who advocates for slavery?
An accurate assessment of reality.
What do you want me to say to you? Yes, your moral compass is broken but thanks for making all our lives miserable by funding the drug cartels?
I don't want you to say anything to me.
Although I don't think the insults are productive.
And I don’t want corporate douchebags telling me what plants I’m allowed to eat.
Okay? I'm unemployed and I don't care what plants you eat.
And I'm still not sure what you're achieving by insulting me.
Your argument has been that you do care what plants I eat by virtue of your defense of our corporate prescription system, whose purpose is to put people who eat plants without permission in prison. Remember?
Uh... Are you under the impression that there's a ketamine plant?
Ketamine is not the only drug for which a prescription is required.
I am in favor of some things being available by prescription and some things being available over-the-counter, just as they are now. However, I would not have the same things be both.
Also, I'm not sure what plants are available by prescription. The only plants I can think of that people take recreationally that are federally scheduled are cannabis and psilocybin and they are not available by prescription, nor do I think they should be. I think they should be legal.
On the other hand, I would put cigarettes behind a prescription wall.
I keenly await your next insult.
Aspirin, morphine and chemotherapy: the essential medicines powered by plants
Putting cigarettes behind a prescription wall would create a drug cartel. This is where black markets come from. So let’s not do that.
No, I feel insulted by the fact that you called me evil and compared me to people who want slaves. Which, you know, are insults.
I have not insulted you a single time.
I lamented the fact that we have to wait for people who support corporate rent seeking to die out before we change that system, just like we did with slavers. Why is that insulting to you?
You literally called me evil. But you've edited that comment and are now pretending you didn't. Which is highly dishonest. I think this is the end of our conversation. In both threads.
I don’t remember directly calling you that. Either way, we probably agree more than we disagree. I just hate having to argue about this.