You think anyone ought to be able to buy, for instance, warfarin and freely take it without a doctor’s involvement?

Yes.

cm2012 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Triple yes! Most of the people buying it have been buying it and using it for years.

Why do you think only the people taking it would be buying it?

	▲	JumpCrisscross 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Why do you think only the people taking it would be buying it? I don't. But the cost of access is significant. And with pharmacies in India, China and Mexico willing to ship basically anything into America, it's a purely-cosmetic tax now.

jmye 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why? Why, specifically, do you think an adult without HF should be able to buy a random drug, likely by accident, and start taking it?

I guess I don’t hate everyone else enough to agree with that.

	▲	Bender 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Why? No reason required. People can already buy incredibly dangerous things with a doctors permission, as if a doctor actually knows what other compounds a person is consuming to begin with. Doctors are not omniscient and patients lie. Most of them barely even know the compounds that are FDA approved to begin with. Be honest, most of them barely remember 10% of what they were taught in medical school and the schools even state that half of what they will be taught will not be relevant or will be entirely wrong by the time they graduate. Again, I can buy apples and apricots without permission. There is nothing capable of more risk or harm that has ever been approved by the FDA than apples and apricots.