If prohibition had worked, I would be all for it. Unfortunately, it did not. However, in general, drug prescription does a lot to mitigate things like, as I have already mentioned, children dying from being treated with drugs they shouldn’t be treated with, antibiotic resistance, date rape, etc.
Your argument against any prescription drugs appears to be ‘people do ketamine recreationally.’ Cool. How about chemotherapy drugs? Okay to obtain over-the-counter and give them to your kid if you decide they have cancer?
Exactly. So youre definitely against the prohibition of drugs, aka the drug war?
Your argument against any prescription drugs
I have never argued against prescription drugs.
I’ve pointed out this case is about recreational use. To improve the safety of medicine, we should separate medical and recreational use, which means we need to reform drug laws, because now recreational use is abusing the prescription drug system, thus undermining it’s actual purpose; safe medication.
I don’t know of anyone who would in any way connect chemotherapy and recreation. Well, I tell a lie. I do know of one person having done that.
So any substance that has the potential to be used recreationally no matter what other effects or risks it might have should be OTC? Or is this literally just ketamine we’re talking about here?
“Over the counters” is still a concept within the current medical system.
I’m talking about reforming drug laws pretty substantially.
The way I imagine it, it would be made available from specialised stores to people who have a licence for it. Much like a drivers licence. Essentially the Bratt system, but for drugs.
If prohibition had worked, I would be all for it. Unfortunately, it did not. However, in general, drug prescription does a lot to mitigate things like, as I have already mentioned, children dying from being treated with drugs they shouldn’t be treated with, antibiotic resistance, date rape, etc.
Your argument against any prescription drugs appears to be ‘people do ketamine recreationally.’ Cool. How about chemotherapy drugs? Okay to obtain over-the-counter and give them to your kid if you decide they have cancer?
Exactly. So youre definitely against the prohibition of drugs, aka the drug war?
I have never argued against prescription drugs.
I’ve pointed out this case is about recreational use. To improve the safety of medicine, we should separate medical and recreational use, which means we need to reform drug laws, because now recreational use is abusing the prescription drug system, thus undermining it’s actual purpose; safe medication.
I don’t know of anyone who would in any way connect chemotherapy and recreation. Well, I tell a lie. I do know of one person having done that.
So any substance that has the potential to be used recreationally no matter what other effects or risks it might have should be OTC? Or is this literally just ketamine we’re talking about here?
“Over the counters” is still a concept within the current medical system.
I’m talking about reforming drug laws pretty substantially.
The way I imagine it, it would be made available from specialised stores to people who have a licence for it. Much like a drivers licence. Essentially the Bratt system, but for drugs.
So… available by a prescription except the pharmacist prescribes instead of the doctor?
Well not exactly.
With a prescription system, the default is that you don’t have a prescription, and get one if there’s a reason.
With this system, the default is (people of age and other possible requirements) have a licence, and it gets taken a way if there’s a reason.
Like the difference between OR and XOR. Similar, yes, but still different and for different purposes.
The more apt analogy would be OR vs NOR.