nomadthethird
more issues than Time mag
Those were indeed more civilised days in some ways.
I reckon the UK should turn itself into a massive drugs haven. Come on Gordon, where's your vision? Getting faced is obviously what we do best, as a Scot you should know this. Everything legal and regulated, we could turn the economy around! Tourism would be off the scale. Let's show the world what makes Britain great!
The awesome thing about those days was that there was still no stupid moralistic prohibition against being on a drug for life. So once you got on morphine or laudanum or whatever, you just did it till you died. No biggie. Nobody cared.
Now we have to spend all this time and money and energy trying to make sure people get off it, as if a) that works, and b) it matters anyway. What the hell does it matter, really, when you get right down to it?
If it weren't illegal in the first place, you could sell regulated doses per day to people, and then you wouldn't get people recreating at ridiculous doses and going on downward spirals and ODing left and right.
The stupid moralistic idea that people are better off without injesting any kinds of chemicals annoys the fuck out of me. It really does. We *are* chemicals. Everything we injest is made of chemicals, even spinach ffs.
Edit: U.S. doctors sometimes prescribe ibuprofen or APAP/NSAIDs, just at higher doses than you can buy per unit over the counter. So for instance, you can only get a "maximum strength" Tylenol tablet at 500mg over the counter, whereas a doctor can prescribe you a 1000 mg tablet and give you 2 qd.
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